Ip Assignment, Per Capita 12 July, 2006 — Stuart Brown
The IP rich list - as decided by ARIN, RIPE, et al.
Posted in Security & Hacking, Networks
Tagged with: ips, assigned, per, capita, country, ip, internet, protocol, ripe, arin
Under IPv4 there are 4,294,967,296 possible IP addresses - each of which may be assigned to a device or computer on the internet. 4 billion addresses equates to slightly less that two thirds of an IP address per person on the planet. As you may imagine, the IP addresses are not distributed evenly around the world - they are assigned to individual countries by Regional Internet Registries such as ARIN and RIPE. We take a look at how that information breaks down per person in each country.
First of all, I obtained an IP address to country lookup list, which revealed the blocks assigned to each country - from this I was able to calculate the total number of IP addresses allocated to each country. I then divided that total figure by the country's population, giving an indication of the number of IPs available to that country per capita (person).
The map below shows this data. Those countries with more than 1 IP per person are in green, those with 1 IP for every 10 people are in yellow, 1 IP for 100 people in orange, and so on. The top 10 and bottom 10 countries, with the population and IP statistics, are listed in tabular form below.
Shaded Map
Top 10 Countries
| Country | Population | No. of IPs | IPs/capita | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  |
Vatican City | 783 | 8,191 | 10.5 IPs per person |
| 2. |  |
United States | 299,161,390 | 1,352,246,048 | 4.5 IPs per person |
| 3. |  |
Canada | 32,547,200 | 70,313,601 | 2.2 IPs per person |
| 4. |  |
Iceland | 297,139 | 589,790 | 2.0 IPs per person |
| 5. |  |
Monaco | 35,656 | 63,480 | 1.8 IPs per person |
| 6. |  |
Gibraltar | 27,921 | 47,097 | 1.7 IPs per person |
| 7. |  |
Liechtenstein | 33,987 | 51,217 | 1.51 IPs per person |
| 8. |  |
Sweden | 9,072,269 | 13,573,300 | 1.501 IPs per person |
| 9. |  |
Finland | 5,255,580 | 7,705,691 | 1.496 IPs per person |
| 10. |  |
Australia | 20,555,300 | 29,998,170 | 1.459 IPs per person |
As you can see, the top 10 countries are as you may expect - western, wealthy countries with high internet penetration.
Vatican City makes it to No. 1 by virtue of being tiny, and the rest consist of the US, Nothern Europe, Japan and Australia. Smaller principalities fare well - such as the wealthy city-state of Monaco and the small German principality of Liechenstein.
Bottom 10 Countries
And so, onto the bottom 10 countries. Note that these are expressed in a slightly different way - rather that IPs per person, these are expressed by people per IP - the reciprocal.
| Country | Population | No. of IPs | IPs/capita | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 195. |  |
Afghanistan | 29,863,000 | 20,476 | 1,458 people per IP |
| 196. |  |
Madagascar | 18,606,000 | 12,286 | 1,514 people per IP |
| 197. |  |
Guinea-Bissau | 1,586,000 | 1,203 | 1,550 people per IP |
| 198. |  |
Central African Republic | 4,038,000 | 2,047 | 1,972 people per IP |
| 199. |  |
Burundi | 7,548,000 | 2,302 | 3,278 people per IP |
| 200. |  |
Myanmar | 50,519,000 | 12,286 | 4,112 people per IP |
| 201. |  |
Malawi | 12,884,000 | 3,070 | 4,197 people per IP |
| 202. |  |
Ethiopia | 75,067,000 | 16,383 | 4,582 people per IP |
| 203. |  |
Niger | 13,957,000 | 255 | 58,139 people per IP |
| 204. |  |
Democratic Republic of Congo | 59,319,660 | 1023 | 58,140 people per IP |
As seen in the shaded map above, it's the African countries and disputed territories that have the highest ration of people to assigned IPs. The least IP-dense country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been stricken by war during the main period of growth of the internet, and has likely suffered. There is a clear reflection of GNP in these figures too - those countries with lower GDPs have similarly lower concentrations of IPs.
This IP shortage is the reason why the move to IPv6 is underway, which supports a markedly superior 3.4x1038 possible addresses - more than enough for everyone on the planet, and no doubt we'll need the extra address space with the lesser economically developed countries catching up in terms of internet usage.
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