You honestly can't measure anything by that. The more people you have (especially with ****tier connections) the harder it gets to move up. US is way behind in the world average in speeds anyways.
Download Speed - Reduce Full List 1 326,918 1,032,369 South Korea 36.76 Mb/s 2 431,071 4,033,613 Lithuania 30.12 Mb/s 3 386,502 4,154,833 Latvia 26.29 Mb/s 4 600,392 2,157,882 Sweden 24.63 Mb/s 5 2,032,690 15,921,351 Romania 24.24 Mb/s 6 1,740,101 11,718,401 Netherlands 24.15 Mb/s 7 231,707 2,302,558 Republic of Moldova 23.55 Mb/s 8 2,561 14,153 Aland Islands 21.57 Mb/s 9 576,770 1,992,731 Switzerland 19.30 Mb/s 10 4,717,459 11,933,880 Germany 19.05 Mb/s 11 1,798,303 9,408,762 Portugal 18.68 Mb/s 12 38,979 181,242 Iceland 17.01 Mb/s 13 433,342 1,589,329 Japan 16.89 Mb/s 14 834,221 5,244,662 Singapore 16.45 Mb/s 15 590,921 2,997,733 Denmark 16.12 Mb/s 16 762,294 7,237,103 Bulgaria 16.06 Mb/s 17 1,311,109 4,278,486 Belgium 15.84 Mb/s 18 949,036 5,440,356 Finland 14.92 Mb/s 19 2,897,865 9,993,037 France 14.37 Mb/s 20 1,685,380 18,807,816 Hungary 14.17 Mb/s 21 4,621 21,233 Andorra 13.91 Mb/s 22 3,281 13,542 Liechtenstein 13.67 Mb/s 23 747,243 3,472,234 Norway 13.02 Mb/s 24 2,157,473 29,135,310 Ukraine 12.68 Mb/s 25 98,238 609,434 Estonia 12.55 Mb/s 26 1,026,412 4,895,873 Austria 12.24 Mb/s 27 5,619,947 47,191,441 Russia 12.21 Mb/s 28 95,851 443,346 Luxembourg 11.53 Mb/s 29 40,373,687 193,248,577 United States 10.44 Mb
I remember reading something about the FCC classifying the internet differently from phone lines and how this hampers expanding bandwidth.
Using this list to make comparisons is like trying to compare average internet speeds between Alaska and Rhode Island.
The US suffers from a relatively low population density. That makes it very uneconomically feasible to upgrade networks.
Countries that are spread out with large rural areas make it prohibitively expensive to expand nationwide. Alaska alone is larger than most of the top 10 countries. USA(including Alaska is huge), China, Mexico, Australia, and Russia will never be in the top 10. I am not surprised that the top 10 countries are smaller than Texas in landmass. Look at #8 Aland Islands 20 mbs. It's not that hard to get broadband for something the size of an island.
