Ethiopia ranks 110th among 110 countries in the third annual edition of the Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) study.
This is despite a huge progress made by the country in ensuring telecom connectivity, which enabled more than half of its population have an access to telecom service.
Covering 90 percent of the global population, the study was undertaken by the cybersecurity company Surfshark and evaluates countries based on a set of five fundamental digital wellbeing pillars.
Ethiopia becomes the part of the study for the first time, but the country displays low results in internet affordability (104th), internet quality (110th), e-infrastructure (110th), e-security (107th), and e-government (107th).
Ethiopia has room for improvement in all digital wellbeing areas, as its DQL is 60 percent worse than the global average and last among all indexed countries, according to the study.
Ethiopia's GDP per capita is almost equal to Zambia, but both countries’ digital quality of life differs substantially. Zambia ranks 94th, while Ethiopia comes in last place overall, the study adds.