Whenever you hear someone complaining about the United States's dismal showing when it comes to global broadband stats, they're likely referring to the yearly OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) broadband rankings. This year's statistics have been released, and nothing has changed for the U.S. We still have the most total connections, but remain in twelfth place in broadband adoption, behind countries such as Canada, Belgium, and Denmark.

Some of the report's findings:

•Denmark now leads the OECD with a broadband penetration rate of 29.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.•The strongest per-capita subscriber growth comes from Denmark, Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Each country added more than 6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants during the past year.•Japan leads the OECD in fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) with 6.3 million fibre subscribers in June 2006. Fibre subscribers alone in Japan outnumber total broadband subscribers in 22 of the 30 OECD countries.•The total number of ADSL subscriptions in Korea and Japan have continued to decline as more users upgrade to fibre-based connections.•DSL continues to be the leading platform in 28 OECD countries. Cable modem subscribers outnumber DSL in Canada and the United States.•The United States has the largest total number of broadband subscribers in the OECD at 57 million. US broadband subscribers now represent 36% of all broadband connections in the OECD, up from 31% in December 2005.•Canada continues to lead the G7 group of industrialized countries in broadband penetration.

You can find the full report, including graphs, here.