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U.S. Fixed Broadband Subscriptions.
What do subscriptions tell us about digital access?
The historical record
Source snapshot2024
Latest observation in this snapshot—not a real-time reading. +0.8 subscriptions per 100 people vs 2023.
Fitted vertical axis · missing periods are not interpolated · annual
What the number means
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.
Subscriptions per hundred people are not the share of households connected. They exclude mobile-only service and do not establish price or quality. Compare matched definitions before using this measure in an access debate.
Subscriptions are not households or individuals. Mobile-only connections are not counted.
A better question to ask
Require broadband proposals to state service availability, actual take-up, affordability, and measured service quality.
This is a prompt for investigation, not evidence that a particular policy works. A trend alone cannot establish a cause.
Read the related practical guide ↗Exact observations
25 available observations since 2000. Annual and quarterly dates represent the start of the reporting period; fiscal years are labeled explicitly. Display values are rounded to the precision shown; downloads retain the source values.
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| Reporting period | Period start | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 | 38.1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 | 37.5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 | 37.0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 | 35.7 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 | 33.8 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 | 33.1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 | 32.6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 | 32.1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 | 31.3 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 | 30.3 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 | 30.0 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 | 29.2 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 | 28.1 |
| 2010 | 2010-01-01 | 27.2 |
| 2009 | 2009-01-01 | 26.0 |
| 2008 | 2008-01-01 | 25.3 |
| 2007 | 2007-01-01 | 23.8 |
| 2006 | 2006-01-01 | 20.2 |
| 2005 | 2005-01-01 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 2004-01-01 | 12.8 |
| 2003 | 2003-01-01 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 2002-01-01 | 6.9 |
| 2001 | 2001-01-01 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 2000-01-01 | 2.5 |
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- Series identifier
- IT.NET.BBND.P2
- Provider
- World Bank / original statistical sources
- Original source attribution
- World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Source units
- subscriptions per 100 people
- Displayed units
- subscriptions per 100 people
- Retrieval time
- 2026-10-04T09:04:46.416Z
- Provider database update
- 2026-07-13 — not the observation date
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