Morocco Ranks Among Top 5 African Countries for Affordable Mobile Data Prices

The website Cable.co.uk, which conducted a study on the average cost of 1 GB of mobile data in 233 countries, has published its ranking. In Africa, Libya (40th global rank) and Ghana (41st global rank) top the top 5 with an average cost of $0.61 each for 1 GB of data. The other countries in the ranking are Somalia ($0.63), Morocco ($0.69) and Nigeria ($0.61).

Globally, it is Israel that has the cheapest average cost of 1 GB in the world, estimated at $0.04, or 15 times cheaper than the cheapest plans in Africa. The most expensive average costs of 1 GB are also found in Africa. With an average cost estimated at $41.06, Saint Helena tops the top 5, followed by São Tomé and Príncipe ($29.49) and Botswana ($15.55). Togo ($12.94) and the Seychelles - $12.66 - close the podium.

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According to Statista data, the number of Internet users in Africa has reached 565 million in 2022, six times more than in 2010. But the Internet penetration rate on the continent in December 2021 is still only 43.1%, more than 20 percentage points less than the global average of 66.2%.