The OECD's new broadband data portal is a treasure trove of information on broadband statistics among OECD member countries. While the OECD traditionally gets attention for highlighting broadband penetration, they also track broadband prices, the number of infected bots per country, the average size of broadband caps, and the average overage fee customers in each country pay.

According to the OECD, among those countries who employ caps, the average bit cap size is 21 gigabytes of traffic per month. 29% of capped users who exceed their caps are throttled to an average of 82 kbps, while 74% of users who exceed their caps pay, on average, 0.03 per additional MB.

The group notes that bitcaps are most popular among ISPs in Australia, Belgium, Canada and New Zealand (see our recent report on metered billing in the U.S.).

When it comes to broadband speeds, the OECD notes that the average connection offered in OECD countries is 13.7Mbps. The fastest average advertised download speeds are in Japan (93 Mbps), France (44 Mbps), Korea (43 Mbps) and Sweden (21 Mbps). Japan is tops when it comes to fastest residential broadband, offering connections of 1Gbps (though we've seen 1Gbps spring up in non-OECD Hong Kong as well).

The average price of a broadband connection among OECD countries is $49, with FTTH on average being the priciest ($51), and fixed wireless being the least expensive ($33). The average price of connectivity per Mbps is $18, with Japan (0.13), France (0.33), Sweden(0.35), Korea (0.38)and Finland (0.42) having the lowest cost broadband per Mbps. FTTH connections are almost five times less expensive per Mbps than DSL, cable or wireless.

The United States continues to be the largest broadband market among OECD countries with 66.2 million connections, comprising 33% of all OECD tracked users. The U.S. also continues to place fifteenth among all OECD countries when it comes to penetration. Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Korea, Norway and Iceland lead the OECD in broadband penetration (connections per 100 residents).