Bangladesh jumps 27 notches in digital quality of life index
Bangladesh was second after India among the five South Asian countries assessed in the index
Bangladesh climbed up 27 notches to rank 76th in the world in digital well-being thanks to the country's performance in internet affordability security and quality according to the Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index 2022.
Netherlands-based cybersecurity company Surfshark released the fourth annual edition of the index on 12 September based on their study on the quality of digital wellbeing across 117 countries of the world.
The index evaluated the countries on five fundamental pillars – internet affordability internet quality electronic infrastructure electronic security and electronic government.
Bangladesh has significantly improved in four of the five indicators this year except for the electronic government pillar where its position was unchanged.
