The Global State of the Internet Report generated by Akamai, the world’s leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider,  shows that Costa Rica has dropped seven spots in the ranking going from the position 109 to 116, losing 1.2% of internet speed.

Twelve countries actually increased their speed in the last four months of 2016, while only three countries went in the opposite direction, Costa Rica, Mexico and Paraguay this last one had the biggest drop, 16%, averaging 1.4 Mbps.

Costa Rica has an average speed of 3.9 Mbps (Megabytes per second) while the average global speed is of 7 Mbps.

The countries that ranked better were: South Corea (26 Mbps), Norway (23 Mbps), Sweden (22 Mbps), Hong Kong (21 Mbps) and Switzerland (21 Mbps). Akamai observed positive connectivity growth through most of the Americas region, where the U.S.A holds the first position with the highest average connection speed, 17.2 Mbps, followed by Canada with 14 Mbps and Chile with 8 Mbps.

According to Akamai’s data Costa Rica holds position 116 in the world ranking.

The improvement in infrastructure of the different internet operators in the country to satisfy the demand of the market will hopefully have a positive impact in the internet connection speed.

This is the tenth year that Akamai publishes The State of the Internet / Connectivity Report, in it, Akamai “reports extensively on Internet connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress”.