Which Country Has the Best Digital Well-Being in 2023?
The average person spends close to seven hours every day looking at a screen, whether for work, entertainment, or communication, highlighting how digital human life has become.
And just like how physical well-being differs from place to place, so too does digital well-being.
According to SurfShark’s 2023, Digital Quality of Life Index, some countries do a better job than others in providing accessible, and affordable internet and digital services, leading to better digital well-being.
They rank 121 countries (amounting to 92% of the world’s population) on five key metrics:
Internet affordability: How long do people have to work to afford a stable internet connection? More affordable internet has a positive effect on digital well-being.
Internet quality: How fast and stable is internet connectivity? Fast and stable internet helps communication, work-efficiency, and consumption of high-quality content.
E-infrastructure: How developed and inclusive the existing electronic infrastructure is, allowing internet use for varied activities.
E-security: Ability to counter cybercrimes and protect online privacy.
E-government: Digitization of government services, minimizing bureaucracy and corruption, and increasing transparency.
They assign scores on each indicator, which weighted equally, creates one rank for each country. Visit SurfShark’s methodology section for their detailed breakdown of sources, scores, and rankings.
Ranking Countries By Digital Well-Being in 2023
The tagline of the 2023 report is “Europe leads the Digital Quality of Life Index.” This is because the first nine spots of the digital well-being ranks go to European countries.
They’re led by France which ranks first in internet affordability, fifth in quality, and has a top-20 ranking in electronic infrastructure, security, and government.
Here’s the full breakdown of each country’s overall rank, as well as their per metric rank.
Singapore, at 10th, is the highest ranked non-European country on the digital well-being index, followed by Japan at 16th.
지난해 최고 득점 국가였던 이스라엘 은 이번 판에서 17위로 떨어졌고, 미국과 한국은 상위 20위 안에 들었습니다.
디지털 삶의 질 동향
Surfshark의 광범위한 숫자 분석을 통해 몇 가지 더 깊은 통찰력을 얻을 수 있었습니다.
부유한 국가가 일반적으로 주요 지표 개선에 투자할 수 있는 자금으로 인해 디지털 웰빙이 더 좋은 것은 사실이지만, Surfshark는 1인당 GDP 범위에서 기대치를 초과한 22개 국가를 발견했습니다. 전자 보안, 인프라 및 정부 부문에서 높은 점수를 받은 사람들은 전반적인 디지털 웰빙 순위가 향상되었습니다.
이들 국가의 대다수는 필리핀, 베트남, 우크라이나, 몰도바, 태국, 세르비아, 크로아티아 등 아시아와 동유럽 출신입니다.
실제로 SurfShark는 전자정부 점수 향상이 특히 더 나은 디지털 삶의 질과 가장 강한 상관관계(0.94)를 갖는다는 사실도 발견했습니다. 반면, 인터넷 경제성은 전체 디지털 웰빙과의 상관관계가 0.67로 가장 낮았습니다.
이는 단순히 인터넷 자체를 개선하는 것이 아니라 인터넷을 통해 다른 서비스를 제공하는 데 있어 큰 역할을 강조합니다.