Sweden tops Tim Berners-Lee's web index

Sweden has topped a new global index evaluating the state of the web in 61 countries, with the US coming second and the UK third.

Compiled by Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation, it ranked both the social and political impact of the web. It found that only one in three people are using the web globally and fewer than one in six in Africa. It highlighted censorship and high broadband prices as barriers to a "web for all." Using data from the past five years, it scored nations in seven different categories. These were: communications infrastructure - the state and availability of web-enabling infrastructure; institutional infrastructure - education, laws, regulation and censorship; web content - what relevant and useful content is available; web use - the extent to which the web is used in a country; political impact; economic impact and social impact.