Paraguay: industry & innovation development goal performance 2019, by indicator

One of the 17 United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for all countries to reach by 2030 is related to the progress in technology, infrastructure, and sustainable innovative contributions. In 2019, Paraguay lag critically in areas such as the number of scientific or technical articles indexed in journals as well as the public expenditure on research and development. On the other hand, the number of people subscribed to mobile broadband was on an increasing trend in the South American country, amounting to almost 48 percent of the its population as of that same year. The average download speed in Paraguay was recorded as 3.55 Megabits per second in 2019, a considerable increase from the 1.73 Mbps measured a year prior.