Internet radio worldwide in numbers

As of October 31, 2026, radioko lists 39,177 radio stations from 180 countries that stream online. 38,370 of the 38,691 stations we could test on October 31, 2026 played. The count covers the internet streams radioko lists and tests every night, with duplicates merged within each country; a stream listed under several countries counts in each (140 copies are in a country the stream is not shown to come from). It is not the number of licensed broadcasters.

Last updated: October 31, 2026

Stations listed

39,177

Countries

180

Played in our latest check

38,370 of 38,691 (99%)

Did not play

321

No clear result

486

Not tested yet

0

Typical bitrate (median)

128 kbps

We hide a station once it fails our check three nights running: these figures describe the stations listed here, not every stream on the internet.

How the numbers are made

Step	Stations
Records in our sources marked as working	60,266
Moved to or from another country's list, or removed as foreign	-159
Duplicates merged	-15,243
Cannot play in a browser (unsecured stream, format or address)	-4,632
Left out on request or by our listing rules	-465
Hidden after failing our check three nights running	-590
Stations listed	39,177
Played in our latest check	38,370

How we check stations

Stations by country

Country	Stations	Share	Played in our latest check
United States	5,588	14%	99%
Germany	4,063	10%	>99%
France	2,259	6%	99%
Greece	1,557	4%	>99%
United Kingdom	1,542	4%	99%
China	1,456	4%	98%
Russia	1,436	4%	>99%
Mexico	1,320	3%	99%
Italy	1,246	3%	>99%
Brazil	1,231	3%	99%
Canada	1,096	3%	>99%
Australia	1,065	3%	98%
Spain	1,029	3%	>99%
Argentina	918	2%	98%
Netherlands	902	2%	99%
Romania	652	2%	99%
India	621	2%	99%
Colombia	580	1%	99%
Poland	559	1%	99%
United Arab Emirates	550	1%	100%
Chile	437	1%	99%
Philippines	435	1%	98%
Indonesia	394	1%	99%
Switzerland	370	1%	>99%
Belgium	340	1%	99%
Portugal	271	1%	>99%
Serbia	266	1%	99%
Hungary	247	1%	98%
Peru	228	1%	99%
Austria	224	1%	99%
Ukraine	212	1%	100%
Bulgaria	198	1%	100%
Czechia	191	<1%	100%
Croatia	188	<1%	100%
South Africa	162	<1%	99%
Venezuela	159	<1%	98%
New Zealand	154	<1%	100%
Ireland	153	<1%	100%
Nepal	143	<1%	100%
Sweden	142	<1%	100%
Uganda	136	<1%	98%
Ecuador	134	<1%	99%
Denmark	132	<1%	99%
Latvia	124	<1%	100%
Israel	117	<1%	100%
Finland	113	<1%	100%
Uruguay	113	<1%	98%
Taiwan	111	<1%	99%
Estonia	108	<1%	99%
Dominican Republic	106	<1%	89%
Norway	104	<1%	100%
Lebanon	101	<1%	100%
Bosnia & Herzegovina	98	<1%	89%
Algeria	91	<1%	100%
Japan	90	<1%	100%
Albania	87	<1%	99%
Ghana	84	<1%	99%
Slovenia	82	<1%	100%
Slovakia	79	<1%	99%
Zambia	78	<1%	97%
Lithuania	75	<1%	100%
Puerto Rico	71	<1%	90%
Moldova	70	<1%	100%
Thailand	69	<1%	99%
Kenya	68	<1%	100%
Nigeria	67	<1%	92%
Guatemala	66	<1%	98%
Malaysia	66	<1%	100%
Angola	63	<1%	95%
Bolivia	61	<1%	98%
Saudi Arabia	59	<1%	100%
Côte d’Ivoire	57	<1%	100%
Malawi	56	<1%	98%
Tunisia	52	<1%	100%
Hong Kong SAR China	51	<1%	100%
El Salvador	50	<1%	100%
Costa Rica	48	<1%	100%
Morocco	47	<1%	98%
Sri Lanka	46	<1%	100%
Belarus	45	<1%	100%
Egypt	45	<1%	100%
Pakistan	45	<1%	100%
Cameroon	44	<1%	95%
South Korea	43	<1%	100%
Cyprus	42	<1%	95%
Montenegro	40	<1%	100%
Paraguay	39	<1%	97%
North Macedonia	37	<1%	95%
Singapore	37	<1%	100%
Jamaica	35	<1%	97%
Honduras	34	<1%	97%
Kazakhstan	30	<1%	100%
Panama	30	<1%	100%
Afghanistan	28	<1%	96%
Haiti	28	<1%	100%
Senegal	27	<1%	100%
Jordan	26	<1%	100%
Vietnam	26	<1%	100%
Luxembourg	24	<1%	100%
Ethiopia	23	<1%	100%
Bangladesh	22	<1%	95%
Iran	22	<1%	100%
Iceland	22	<1%	100%
Zimbabwe	22	<1%	95%
Azerbaijan	21	<1%	90%
Georgia	21	<1%	95%
Nicaragua	20	<1%	100%
Trinidad & Tobago	20	<1%	100%
Cuba	19	<1%	95%
Iraq	18	<1%	94%
Cape Verde	17	<1%	100%
Syria	17	<1%	100%
Tanzania	16	<1%	100%
Madagascar	14	<1%	100%
Mozambique	14	<1%	100%
Vatican City	14	<1%	100%
Mauritius	13	<1%	100%
Namibia	13	<1%	100%
Qatar	13	<1%	100%
Armenia	12	<1%	100%
Kuwait	12	<1%	100%
Mali	12	<1%	100%
Kosovo	11	<1%	82%
Barbados	10	<1%	100%
Congo - Kinshasa	10	<1%	100%
St. Lucia	10	<1%	100%
Malta	10	<1%	90%
Uzbekistan	10	<1%	90%
St. Vincent & Grenadines	10	<1%	100%
Bahrain	8	<1%	100%
Bahamas	8	<1%	100%
Guyana	8	<1%	100%
Oman	8	<1%	88%
Palestinian Territories	8	<1%	75%
Yemen	8	<1%	100%
Kyrgyzstan	7	<1%	100%
Cambodia	7	<1%	86%
Mongolia	7	<1%	86%
Macao SAR China	7	<1%	100%
Libya	6	<1%	100%
Monaco	6	<1%	100%
Rwanda	6	<1%	67%
Suriname	6	<1%	100%
Togo	6	<1%	100%
Andorra	4	<1%	100%
Burkina Faso	4	<1%	100%
Dominica	4	<1%	100%
Grenada	4	<1%	100%
Guinea	4	<1%	75%
Myanmar (Burma)	4	<1%	100%
Antigua & Barbuda	3	<1%	100%
Benin	3	<1%	100%
Eritrea	3	<1%	100%
St. Kitts & Nevis	3	<1%	100%
Maldives	3	<1%	100%
Sudan	3	<1%	100%
Sierra Leone	3	<1%	100%
San Marino	3	<1%	100%
Tonga	3	<1%	100%
Vanuatu	3	<1%	100%
Burundi	2	<1%	100%
Brunei	2	<1%	100%
Botswana	2	<1%	100%
Comoros	2	<1%	100%
Laos	2	<1%	100%
Niger	2	<1%	100%
Papua New Guinea	2	<1%	100%
Seychelles	2	<1%	100%
South Sudan	2	<1%	100%
Tajikistan	2	<1%	100%
Bhutan	1	<1%	100%
Belize	1	<1%	100%
Central African Republic	1	<1%	100%
Gabon	1	<1%	100%
Guinea-Bissau	1	<1%	100%
Kiribati	1	<1%	100%
Liechtenstein	1	<1%	100%
Lesotho	1	<1%	100%
Somalia	1	<1%	100%
Chad	1	<1%	100%

How the streams are delivered

Stream	Stations	Share
HTTPS	32,527	83%
HLS	1,861	5%
HTTP (not encrypted)	4,789	12%

Stream formats

Stream	Stations	Share
MP3	27,735	71%
HE-AAC	3,412	9%
AAC	3,275	8%
HE-AAC v2	2,568	7%
HLS	1,861	5%
Ogg Vorbis	135	<1%
Ogg FLAC	95	<1%
Ogg Opus	78	<1%
OGG	10	<1%
MP2	6	<1%
MP4	2	<1%

Languages on air

Language	Stations	Share
English	9,662	25%
Spanish	4,473	11%
German	3,082	8%
French	2,205	6%
Chinese	1,517	4%
Portuguese	1,133	3%
Italian	1,047	3%
Russian	983	3%
Greek	910	2%
Dutch	606	2%
Romanian	528	1%
Polish	425	1%
Arabic	347	1%
Hindi	278	1%
Serbian	214	1%
Tamil	191	<1%
Hungarian	181	<1%
Ukrainian	166	<1%
Indonesian	163	<1%
Croatian	145	<1%

A station can broadcast in more than one language, and not every station names one, so the shares do not add up to 100%.

Source: the stations listed on radioko and our own nightly test of every stream.

Figures may be quoted with credit: radioko, October 31, 2026.