The latest quarterly ‘State of the Internet’ report brought out by the Nasdaq-listed Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) Technologies, Inc., ranks India at 115 among the 223 countries measured in terms of average connection speeds. India’s average connection speed is 772Kbps while the global average is 1.5Mbps. South Korea, which ranks No.1, had average speeds of 15 Mbps.

The number of unique IPs from India grew 42.91% year-on-year, to 2.63 million, a figure that puts India at No. 20 globally. Globally, the number of unique IPs grew 20%. The US is ranked No. 1, with 114.1 million unique IPs.

Akamai also measures attack traffic, a measure of rogue activity on the Internet, such as DNS attacks, bots, spam activity and hackers. In terms of countries originating such activity, India is ranked at no. 17 globally, with 1.16% of observed attack traffic. US is ranked No. 1 on this parameter, with 22.85% of such traffic.

“We continue to see strong trends that point to an ever-improving Internet penetration figures in India with observed unique IPs growing 43% Y-o-Y and average connections speed well above 750 Kbps.  The average connection speed will be an interesting number to track in the coming quarters and will give us a clear indication of the growing broadband adoption in the country,” Sanjay Singh, India MD of Akamai Technologies, said in a statement.

More parameters that rank India are below the jump. The entire report can be downloaded here. Also check out a nifty application that visually represents broadband speeds across the world on the same page.

Image courtesy: The State of The Internet report 4th quarter 2008 by Akamai Technologies