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Foreword
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much more volatile and new innovative pricing schemes are emerging which could provide viable solutions
for low-income populations. Over the past year, the decrease in mobile-broadband prices worldwide made
the service on average between 20 and 30 per cent more affordable. Prepaid mobile-broadband offers
are the most affordable option, and make the service almost as affordable as mobile cellular. These are
promising developments which need to be complemented by efforts to extend mobile-broadband services
beyond the main cities, into rural and remote areas.
The rapid spread of ICT infrastructure and devices is accelerating the progress of the Internet of Things
(IoT). IoT is expected to significantly impact almost every social and economic sector, including education,
healthcare, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing. Most of the value derived from IoT comes from
the generation, processing and analysis of new data. This report shows how IoT and big data analytics can
help address major development challenges such as those related to megacities, climate change, food
security and resource management.
The potential of IoT is determined by the available ICT infrastructure and data-processing capacity. While
some IoT applications may run with low-speed and low-capacity connectivity, others will require highcapacity broadband connections that rely on fixed-broadband infrastructure, larger international Internet
bandwidth and backbone capacity.
I hope you will find this report informative and useful in mapping strategies to grow the ICT sector and
drive the socio-economic development of countries.
Brahima Sanou
Director
Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
International Telecommunication Union
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Acknowledgements
The 2015 edition of the Measuring the Information Society Report was prepared by the ICT Data and
Statistics Division within the Telecommunication Development Bureau of ITU. The team included Susan
Teltscher (Head of Division), Vanessa Gray, Diana Korka, Esperanza Magpantay, and Ivan Vallejo. The
following consultants to ITU provided substantive contributions: David Souter (Chapters 1, 2 and 3),
Steve Chan (Chapter 5) and Doris Olaya (Chapter 1). Helpful inputs were received from the following ITU
colleagues: Reillie Acks (during her internship at ITU), Rosheen Awotar-Mauree, Mohamed Ba, Cristina
Bueti, Yvon Henri, Mythili Menon, Reinhard Scholl, Susan Schorr, Nancy Sundberg, and Alis Daniela Torres.
Nathalie Delmas provided statistical and desktop publishing assistance. The work was carried out under
the overall direction of Cosmas Zavazava, Chief, Project Support and Knowledge Management Department,
Telecommunication Development Bureau.
Andr Wills, Fernando Callorda, Lisa Kreuzenbeck and Shazna Zuhely contributed to the compilation of
datasets on prices, and Michael Minges to the compilation of data on international Internet bandwidth.
Michaela Saisana and Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
carried out the statistical assessment of the ICT Development Index (IDI).
The report includes data from Eurostat, OECD, IMF, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the United Nations
Population Division and the World Bank, which are duly acknowledged.
ITU also appreciates the cooperation of countries that have provided data included in this report.
The report was edited by the ITU English Translation Section, led by Bruce Granger. The desktop publishing
was carried out by the ITU Publication Production Service, led by Simon De Nicolas, and the cover was
designed by Jess Vicente.
Table of Contents
Forewordiii
Acknowledgementsv
Table of Contentsvii
1 Monitoring global ICT goals and targets 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 The Connect 2020 Agenda 4
1.3 Connect 2020 Agenda Goal 1 Growth 8
1.4 Connect 2020 Agenda Goal 2 Inclusiveness 11
1.5 Connect 2020 Agenda Goal 3 - Sustainability 24
1.6 Connect 2020 Agenda Goal 4 Innovation and partnership 29
1.7 Future monitoring and measurement of the Connect 2020 Agenda, WSIS outcomes and
sustainable development goals 30
2 The ICT Development Index (IDI) global analysis 39
2.1 Introduction to the IDI1 39
2.2 Global IDI analysis 44
2.3 The access, use and skills sub-indices 50
2.4 The IDI and the digital divide 54
2.5 Conclusion 60
3 The ICT Development Index (IDI) regional and country analysis 63
3.1 Introduction 63
3.2 Regional IDI analysis 63
3.3 Top performers and dynamic countries 76
3.4 Conclusion 88
4 Monitoring the price and affordability of ICTs 93
4.1 Introduction 93
4.2 Fixed-telephone and mobile-cellular prices 96
4.3 Fixed-broadband prices 106
4.4 Mobile-broadband prices 118
4.5 International mobile roaming prices 133
5 The Internet of Things: data for development 147
5.1 Overview 147
5.2 Introduction to IoT 147
5.3 The opportunities of IoT for development 158
5.4 Conclusions and recommendations 169
List of references 173
Annex 1. ICT Development Index (IDI) methodology 187
1. Indicators included in the IDI 187
2. Imputation of missing data 189
3. Normalization of data 189
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4.
5.
6.
Annex 2. JRC Statistical Assessment of the 2015 ICT Development Index1 195
Summary 195
Conclusions 203
Annex 3. ICT price data methodology 207
Price data collection and sources 207
The ICT Price Basket 207
Annex 4. Statistical tables of indicators used to compute the IDI 217
Access indicators 218
Use indicators 222
Skills indicators 226
Notes 230
Annex 5. Statistical tables of prices used to compute the ICT Price Basket 235
Fixed-telephone prices 2014 236
Fixed-broadband prices 2014 240
Mobile-cellular prices 2014 (on-net) 244
Mobile-cellular prices 2014 (off-net) 248
Mobile-cellular prices 2014 (to fixed telephone; SMS) 252
Notes 256
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Table 5.1: Summary of statistics on global data generated and stored in electronic format 154
Table 5.2: The size and value of the Internet of Things in numbers 155
Annex Table 2.1: Impact of log transform of the international Internet bandwidth indicator 197
Annex Table 2.2: Statistical coherence in the 2015 IDI Principal components analysis and reliability
analysis 197
Annex Table 2.3: Statistical coherence in the 2015 IDI Cross-correlations 198
Annex Table 2.4: Importance measures (variance-based) for the IDI components 199
Annex Table 2.5: Added value of the IDI vis--vis its main components 200
Annex Table 2.6: Uncertainty parameters (weights and aggregation function) 200
Annex Table 2.7: IDI country ranks and 90 per cent intervals 202
Annex Table 3.1: OECD mobile-cellular low-user call distribution (2009 methodology): 210
Figures
Figure 1.1: The Connect 2020 Goals5
Figure 1.2: Levels of cybersecurity, 2014 Global Cybersecurity Index27
Figure 1.3: The relationship between WSIS action lines and SDGs33
Figure 2.1: Three stages in the evolution towards an information society40
Figure 2.2: ICT Development Index: indicators, reference values and weights41
Figure 2.3: Quartiles by IDI value, 201559
Figure Box 4.1: Timeline of ITUs ICT price data collection95
Figure 4.2: Mobile-broadband services by type of device/plan 119
Figure Box 4.3: Mobile-broadband data usage examples, 500 MB and 1 GB per month 124
Figure 5.1: Timeline of developments that led to IoT 148
Figure 5.2: Path to IoT: from people-to-people to machine-to-machine communications 148
Figure 5.3: Diagram of IoT connectivity 150
Figure 5.4: Sectors in which IoT can play an enabling role for development 152
Figure 5.5: Evolution from the Internet of Things to the Internet of Everything 153
Figure 5.6: Typhoid incidence and human mobility from highly infected areas in Uganda during the
January-May 2015 typhoid outbreak 160
Annex Figure 2.1: Uncertainty analysis of the IDI (ranks vs median rank, 90 per cent intervals) 201
Boxes
Box 2.1: Assessment of the IDI43
Box 3.1: ICT and IDI developments in the Republic of Korea79
Box 3.2: ICT and IDI developments in Denmark80
Box 3.3: ICT and IDI developments in Saudi Arabia81
Box 3.4: ICT and IDI developments in Lebanon83
Box 3.5: ICT and IDI developments in Costa Rica85
Box 3.6: ICT and IDI developments in Brazil86
Box 3.7: ICT and IDI developments in Kyrgyzstan87
Box 3.8: ICT and IDI developments in Thailand88
Box 3.9: ICT and IDI developments in Ghana89
Box 4.1: Adapting ITUs price data collection to ICT developments95
Box 4.2: Prices and affordability relative and absolute ICT price values96
Box 4.3: Ghanas steady way to low prices and high mobile penetration 105
Box 4.4: Romanias Neighbourhood Networks increase competition and bring down prices 110
Box 4.5: 111 countries meet the Broadband Commissions target for broadband price affordability 112
Box 4.6: How much service for your mobile-broadband package? 123
Box 4.7: Cambodias mobile-broadband market 130
Box 5.1: IoT communications across borders 149
Box 5.2: Wireless sensor networks 151
Box 5.3: Surface web and deep web 158
Box 5.4: IoT-enabled management of photovoltaic (PV) systems 161
Box 5.5: Monitoring the worlds deep oceans 163
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Chart 4.21: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the CIS region, 2014 132
Chart 4.22: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the Europe region, 2014 132
Chart 4.23: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the Americas region, 2014 133
Chart 4.24: International mobile roaming and domestic prices in Europe and the Gulf, 2014 134
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Introduction
Background
Ten years ago, at the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), the international
community agreed a common vision to build a
people-centred, inclusive and developmentoriented information society, and established
ten targets, relating for the most part to ICT
connectivity and access, that were intended to
measure progress towards that vision (ITU, 2005b).
The targets were intended to complement the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), agreed
by the United Nations in 2000, by helping to guide
the contribution that ICTs could make to achieving
those goals by their target date in 2015.1
In December 2015, the United Nations General
Assembly (UNGA) will complete its ten-year review
of the implementation of WSIS outcomes. That
review has been informed by a range of inputs
from ITU and other UN agencies, including a
comprehensive assessment of progress towards
the WSIS targets, the Final WSIS Targets Review,
published by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for
Development in 2014 (Partnership on Measuring
ICT for Development, 2014a). In September 2015,
the UN Sustainable Development Summit adopted
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
composed of 17 new Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), to succeed the MDGs.2
Since 2007, ITU has published a series of reports
entitled Measuring the Information Society.
This years report includes the latest editions of
two indices through which ITU has measured
progress on ICT development in general and
on the affordability of ICTs for individuals and
communities worldwide. The ICT Development
Index (IDI), which combines data concerning ICT
access, use and skills in an overview assessment
of national ICT ecosystems, is reported on in
Chapters 2 and 3, while the ICT Price Basket (IPB),
concerned with affordability, is the subject of
Chapter 4.
96.8
95.3
90
80
70
60
47.2
46.4
43.4
50
40
30
20
10.8
10
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*
Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions
Population covered by a 2G mobile-cellular network
Mobile-broadband subscriptions
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120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Mobile cellular
Mobile broadband
World
Developed
Fixed telephone
Developing
Fixed broadband
LDCs
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Mobile-cellular subscriptions
Africa
Arab States
Mobile-broadband subscriptions
CIS
Europe
The Americas
Chart 1.4: Percentage of individuals using the Internet by development status and region, 2015*
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Developed
Europe
The
Americas
CIS
Arab States
Asia &
Pacic
Developing
Africa
1.2
Chapter 1
4
INNOVATION
& PARTNERSHIP
2
INCLUSIVENESS
3
SUSTAINABILITY
Manage challenges
resulting from ICT
environment
Chapter 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Making broadband
policy universal
Making broadband
affordable
Connecting homes to
broadband
Getting people online
By 2015, all countries should have a national broadband plan or strategy or include
broadband in their Universal Access / Service Definitions
By 2015, entry-level broadband services should be made affordable in developing
countries through adequate regulation and market forces (amounting to less than 5% of
average monthly income)
By 2015, 40% of households in developing countries should have Internet access
By 2015, Internet user penetration should reach 60% worldwide, 50% in developing
countries and 15% in LDCs
1.3
the importance of this to both short- and longterm social and economic development as well
as its significance for the ICT sector itself. It builds
on experience in monitoring and measuring
the connectivity and access targets which were
adopted at WSIS in 2003 and the more ambitious
targets for broadband connectivity adopted by the
Broadband Commission for Digital Development
in 2011, both of which are described in section 2
above.
The Connect 2020 Agenda includes three global
targets for growth in access and usage, as set out
in Table 1.4.
Table 1.4: Connect 2020 Agenda Goal 1 Targets
1.1 Worldwide, 55% of households should have access to
the Internet by 2020
1.2 Worldwide, 60% of individuals should be using the
Internet by 2020
1.3 Worldwide, telecommunication/ICT should be 40%
more affordable by 2020
Source: ITU.
Chapter 1
56
55
2020 target
60
2020
projection
Chart 1.5: Households with Internet access worldwide, 2005-2015*, against target and 2020 projection
50
40
30
20
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2015*
10
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU.
Chart 1.6: Percentage of individuals using the Internet worldwide, 2005-2015*, against target and 2020
projection
60
60
53
40
30
20
2020 target
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2020
projection
10
2015*
50
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU.
10
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3.6
4.4
5.9
12.7
3.5
4.6
7.0
7.3
9.4
8.6
3.9
5.0
4.1
5.6
4.4
4.4
6.3
7.3
11.0
12.5
8.7
15
10
15.6
20
5.3
As a % of GNI p.c.
25
14.0
23.4
33.7
30
49.9
91.8
35
0
2008
2009
Fixed telephone
2010
2011
Mobile cellular
2012
2013
Fixed broadband
2014
IPB
Note: Simple averages. Based on 140 economies for which price data on the three services were available for 2008-2014.
Source: ITU.
Table 1.5: Affordability of ICT services: baseline, current status and Connect 2020 target for each
telecommunication service
Service
Fixed-telephone
Mobile-cellular
Fixed-broadband
Mobile-broadband
Postpaid handset-based
(500MB)
Prepaid handset-based
(500MB)
Postpaid computer-based (1GB)
Prepaid computer-based (1GB)
Value in 2012
(% GNI p.c.)
Value in 2014
(% GNI p.c.)
3.9
5.0
15.6
3.6
4.4
14.0
2.3
3.0
8.4
21
29
26
6.5*
5.1
3.9
55
6.7*
4.8
4.0
72
8.9*
10.4*
7.2
7.1
5.3
6.2
48
79
Note: Simple averages. Fixed-telephone, mobile-cellular and fixed-broadband averages based on 140 economies for which price data on the three
services were available. Mobile-broadband average based on 119 economies for which 2013 and 2014 data on mobile-broadband prices were available
for the four types of data plan. * For mobile broadband, 2013 is taken as the baseline because, in 2012, mobile broadband services (or some of their
modalities, such as handset-based plans) were not yet available in several countries.
Source: ITU.
1.4
11
In the developing world, 50 per cent of households should have access to the Internet by 2020
In LDCs, 15 per cent of households should have access to the Internet by 2020
In the developing world, 50 per cent of individuals should be using the Internet by 2020
In LDCs, 20 per cent of individuals should be using the Internet by 2020
The affordability gap between developed and developing countries should be reduced by 40 per cent by 2020
Broadband services should cost no more than 5 per cent of average monthly income in developing countries by
2020
Worldwide, 90 per cent of the rural population should be covered by broadband services by 2020
Gender equality among Internet users should be reached by 2020
Enabling environments ensuring accessible telecommunication/ICT for persons with disabilities should be
established in all countries by 2020
Source: ITU.
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Chart 1.8: Households with Internet access, by region and development status, 2015*
100
90
82.1
81.3
80
70
60.1
60
60.0
46.4
50
40.3
39.0
40
34.1
30
20
10.7
6.7
LDCs
Africa
Developing
Arab States
World
The Americas
CIS
Europe
Developed
10
Note: * Estimates.
Source: ITU.
Chart 1.9: Households with access to the Internet, developing countries, 2005-2015*, against target and
2020 projection
60
50
50
45
40
30
20
2020 target
2020
projection
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2015*
10
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU.
13
Chart 1.10: Households with access to the Internet, LDCs, 2005-2015*, against target and 2020 projection
16
15
14
12
11
10
8
6
4
2020 target
2020
projection
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2015*
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU
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100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
82.2
77.6
66.0
59.9
43.4
37.0
36.9
35.3
20.7
LDCs
Africa
Developing
Arab States
World
The Americas
CIS
Developed
9.5
Europe
Chart 1.11: Percentage of individuals using the Internet, by region and development status, 2015*
Note: *Estimates.
Source: ITU (2015a).
2020
projection
2015*
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
46
50
2020 target
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2005
Chart 1.12: Percentage of individuals using the Internet in developing countries, 2005-2015*, against
target and 2020 projection
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU.
15
20
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
2020 target
2020
projection
2015*
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
16
2005
Chart 1.13: Percentage of individuals using the Internet in LDCs, 2005-2015*, against target and 2020
projection
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU.
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2012
2013
2014
2010
2011
2012
2013
19.8
1.4
1.4
17.9
22.1
2008
2009
2010
2011
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.8
2.2
5.7
6.0
6.5
8.4
9.6
10
2014
11.6
12
2.4
As a % of GNI p.c.
4.7
1.0
1.0
4.7
5.2
5.5
1.0
1.1
1.1
2009
1.1
5.9
6.0
7.2
1.2
As a % of GNI p.c.
Mobile Broadband
14
2008
1.5
1.6
Fixed Telephone
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1.6
33.3
48.4
71.9
1.9
2.3
1.3
As a % of GNI p.c.
8.1
9.6
1.3
1.4
10.0
11.8
2011
7.4
2010
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1.8
2009
Fixed Broadband
1.5
1.5
1.7
2008
13.1
15.3
17.3
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
2.0
As a % of GNI p.c.
IPB
2012 2013
2014
Developing
Developed
Note: Simple averages. Based on 140 economies for which price data on the three services were available for 2008-2014.
Source: ITU.
35
35
30
30
30
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
8.8
6.9
0.9
2013
0.8
2014
Postpaid handset-based
(500MB)
25
20
15
10
5
0
9.11
1.08
2013
6.49
0.79
2014
Prepaid handset-based
(500MB)
Developing
As % of GNI p.c.
35
As % of GNI p.c.
35
As % of GNI p.c.
As % of GNI p.c.
25
20
15
13.98
9.48
10
5
0
1.87
2013
1.45
25
20
15 12.17
10
5
0
2014
Prepaid Computer-based
(1GB)
1.02
2013
9.80
0.90
2014
Postpaid Computer-based
(1GB)
Developed
Note: Simple averages. Based on 119 economies for which price data on the four services were available for 2008-2014.
Source: ITU.
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Fixed-broadband penetration
100
35
30
80
90
70
60
50
40
30
20
20
15
10
5
10
0
25
Developed Developing
World
LDCs
Developed Developing
World
LDCs
Note: *Estimates.
Source: ITU.
Developed
Developing
Number of countries
80
70
60
43
50
40
30
20
35
10
0
32
12
0-2
2-5
5-8
5
8-10
10
11
11
10-20
20-30
>30
18
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Postpaid
Prepaid
Prepaid
Postpaid
handset-based handset-based computer-based computer-based
(500MB)
(1GB)
(500MB)
(1GB)
Chart 1.18: Mobile-broadband prices, developed and developing countries and LDCs, 2013-2014
7.2
2014
2013
7.1
2014
2013
4.8
2014
2013
5.1
2014
2013
0
6.5
6.7
6.9
6.5
9.8
8.9
23.4
12.2
9.5
10.4
31.6
21.5
14.0
37.6
15.2
9.1
23.6
16.3
8.8
22.4
10
World
15
20
% GNI p.c.
Developed
25
Developing
30
35
40
LDCs
Source: ITU.
19
100
90
80
70
60
Europe
Americas
Asia
World
Oceania
Africa
50
40
30
20
10
0
2003
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
2012
Source: ITU.
Chart 1.20: Population coverage by 3G networks, urban and rural areas, 2015*
2015*
2015*
3G rural
population
coverage,
29%
3G population
coverage,
69%
3G coverage
No 3G coverage
3G urban
population
coverage,
89%
Note: * Estimate.
Source: ITU.
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Chart 1.21: GSMA data and projections for global 3G and 4G coverage, 2009-2020
100%
3G
4G
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Source: GSMA.
21
Chart 1.22: Percentage of individuals using the Internet, by gender, development status and region, 2015*
100
90
80
70
%
60
50
40
30
20
As a % of female population
As a % of male population
The Americas
Europe
CIS
Arab States
Africa
World
Developing
Developed
LDCs
10
As a % of total population
Table 1.7: Percentage of individuals using the Internet, by gender, development status and region, 2015*
Region
Female population
Male population
Total population
80.1
32.3
40.8
8.1
84.6
38.2
45.9
11.3
82.3
35.3
43.4
9.7
18.4
34.1
33.3
57.8
74.3
66.2
23.1
39.8
40.4
62.2
81
65.8
20.8
37
36.9
59.9
77.6
66
Developed
Developing
World
LDC
Africa
Arab States
Asia & Pacific
CIS
Europe
The Americas
Note: *Estimates.
Source: ITU.
22
Region
Developed
Developing
World
LDC
6.3
15.6
11.0
29.9
5.4
15.4
11.1
28.9
Africa
Arab States
Asia & Pacific
CIS
Europe
The Americas
20.7
15.5
17.7
7.5
9.4
-0.4
20.5
14.4
17.6
7.0
8.2
-0.7
Note: *The gap represents the difference between the Internet user
penetration rates for males and females relative to the Internet user
penetration rate for males, expressed as a percentage.
Source: ITU.
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23
24
1.5
Chapter 1
25
Capacity-building
Cooperation
Criminal legislation
Regulation and compliance
Establishment of a national computer incident response team (CIRT) or equivalent
A government-approved framework for cybersecurity standards
A government-approved framework for certification
A policy to promote cybersecurity
A roadmap for governance
A responsible agency for managing a national strategy or policy
National benchmarking
Standardization development
Professional skills development
Professional certification
Agency certification
Intra-State cooperation
Intra agency cooperation
Public private partnerships
International cooperation
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0.4
0.35
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
0
World
Europe
Asia &
Pacic
Arab States
CIS
The
Americas
Africa
27
28
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2002
End-user devices
2011
Voice & data networks
2020
Data centres
1.6
29
30
1.7
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31
32
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Theme
4.b
5.b
9.c
17.8
Target
Figure 1.3: The relationship between WSIS action lines and SDGs
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
egov
ebus
elea
ehea
eemp
eenv
eagr
esci
C8
C9
C10
C11
SDG 1
SDG 2
SDG 3
SDG 4
SDG 5
SDG 6
SDG 7
SDG 8
SDG 9
SDG 10
SDG 11
SDG 12
SDG 13
SDG 14
SDG 15
SDG 16
SDG 17
Source: ITU/WSIS.
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Table 1.13: The relationship between WSIS action lines and SDGs
Sustainable Development Goal
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (1.4, 1.5, 1.b)
Source: ITU/WSIS.
34
Achieve gender
Target 5.b concerning enabling
Goal 5 equality and empower
technologies including ICT
all women and girls
Proportion of individuals
owning a mobile phone, by sex
Proportion of individuals with
ICT skills, by type of skills
Source: ITU.
Measuring
the Information
Measuring
the Information
Society Society
Report Report
2015 3535
Chapter 1
Table 1.14:
1.14: ITU-proposed
Table
ITU-proposed ICT
ICT indicators
indicators for
for the
the SDG
SDG monitoring
monitoring framework
framework
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Chapter 1
Endnotes
1
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, see: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
post2015/transformingourworld.
The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference is the top policy-making body of ITU. It is held every four years and sets the
Unions general policies; adopts four-year strategic and financial plans; and elects the senior management team of the
organization, the members of ITU Council, and the members of the Radio Regulations Board. For further information,
see: http://www.itu.int/en/plenipotentiary/2014/Pages/default.aspx.
Data in this section are elaborated in ITU (2015a), and derived from those presented on the ITU Statistics website at
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx, also available in ITU (2015b).
Data in the following paragraph are derived from ITU tables published online at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/
Documents/statistics/2015/ITU_Key_2005-2015_ICT_data.xls.
The following are member-agencies of the Partnership: ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UNDESA,
the World Bank, the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, EUROSTAT, UNEP
Secretariat of the Basel Convention, and ILO. The work of the Partnership is described at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/
Statistics/Pages/intlcoop/partnership/members.aspx.
http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2013/08.aspx#.VdRDePmqqko.
10
The strong average decrease in fixed-broadband prices in the period 2008-2012 should not be interpreted as a
sustained decrease of that magnitude in most countries, but rather as the result of very strong downward price
corrections in several developing countries at a given point in time. Indeed, these price reductions reflect the
particular situation in several developing countries, in which fixed broadband used to be a premium service (with
prices corresponding to more than 100 per cent of GNI p.c.) until the first residential ADSL and WiMAX offers were
launched during the period 2008-2012. The effect of these new offers was to drive prices down drastically in the year
in which they became available.
11
https://gsmaintelligence.com/research/2015/06/closing-the-network-coverage-gaps-in-asia/508/; https://
gsmaintelligence.com/research/2014/12/mobile-broadband-reach-expanding-globally/453/.
12
SDG 5.b aims to Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to
promote the empowerment of women: see Open Working Group (2014).
13
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs352/en/.
14
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/Pages/cybersecurity.aspx.
15
16
17
18
http://www.unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=26816&ArticleID=35021.
19
http://gesi.org/SMARTer2020.
20
See: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/economics/gii/gii_2014.pdf.
21
See: http://www.gemconsortium.org/.
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38
23
The modalities for the review can be found in General Assembly resolution 68/302, which can be found at: http://www.
un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/68/302.
24
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, see: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
post2015/transformingourworld.
25
In February 2015, the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development submitted a joint proposal for ICT indicators to
help track the Sustainable Development Goals and targets to the Expert Group Meeting on the indicator framework
for the post-2015 development agenda, see: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/intlcoop/partnership/
Partnership-Background-note-on-ICT-indicator-proposal-for-Expert-Group.pdf
26
Conceptual framework
Recognizing that ICTs can, if applied and used
appropriately, be development enablers is critical
to countries that are moving towards information
or knowledge-based societies, and is central to the
IDIs conceptual framework. The ICT development
process, and a countrys evolution towards
becoming an information society, can be depicted
using the three-stage model illustrated in Figure
2.1:
39
Source: ITU.
40
Methodology
The IDI includes 11 indicators. A detailed definition
of each indicator is provided in Annex 1.
Chapter 2
Figure 2.2: ICT Development Index: indicators, reference values and weights
Reference
value
(%)
60
20
120
20
962216*
20
100
20
100
20
Reference
value
(%)
100
33
60
33
100
33
Reference
value
(%)
100
33
100
33
100
33
ICT access
ICT use
ICT skills
40
40
ICT
Development
Index
20
Note: *This corresponds to a log value of 5.98, which was used in the normalization step.
Source: ITU.
41
42
Chapter 2
43
IDI 2010
CV
Average
value*
StDev
//
h
^
44
Change in
average
value
CV
2015-2010
Chapter 2
2010
2015
IDI Values
8 to 9
7 to 8
6 to 7
5 to 6
4 to 5
3 to 4
2 to 3
1 to 2
Below 1
Source: ITU.
45
Table 2.2: IDI overall rankings and ratings, 2015 and 2010
Economy
Korea (Rep.)
Denmark
Iceland
United Kingdom
Sweden
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Netherlands
Hong Kong, China
Norway
Japan
Finland
Australia
Germany
United States
New Zealand
France
Monaco
Singapore
Estonia
Belgium
Ireland
Canada
Macao, China
Austria
Spain
Bahrain
Andorra
Barbados
Malta
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Israel
Belarus
Latvia
Italy
Greece
Lithuania
Saudi Arabia
Croatia
Portugal
Poland
Russian Federation
Kuwait
Slovakia
Hungary
Uruguay
Bulgaria
Serbia
Argentina
Cyprus
Oman
Chile
Lebanon
Costa Rica
Kazakhstan
Romania
TFYR Macedonia
Brazil
Antigua & Barbuda
St. Kitts and Nevis
Malaysia
Montenegro
Moldova
Azerbaijan
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Turkey
Trinidad & Tobago
Brunei Darussalam
Venezuela
Mauritius
Thailand
Colombia
Armenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Georgia
Ukraine
Dominica
Maldives
China
Grenada
Mongolia
Rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
Source: ITU.
46
IDI
2015
8.93
8.88
8.86
8.75
8.67
8.59
8.56
8.53
8.52
8.49
8.47
8.36
8.29
8.22
8.19
8.14
8.12
8.10
8.08
8.05
7.88
7.82
7.76
7.73
7.67
7.66
7.63
7.60
7.57
7.52
7.44
7.32
7.23
7.21
7.19
7.18
7.16
7.12
7.09
7.08
7.05
7.00
6.93
6.91
6.91
6.83
6.82
6.82
6.70
6.52
6.45
6.40
6.37
6.33
6.31
6.29
6.20
6.20
6.11
6.07
6.03
5.93
5.92
5.90
5.90
5.81
5.79
5.69
5.58
5.57
5.53
5.48
5.41
5.36
5.32
5.32
5.28
5.25
5.23
5.12
5.08
5.05
5.05
5.00
Rank
2010
1
4
3
10
2
8
12
7
13
5
9
6
15
17
16
19
18
22
11
25
24
20
21
14
23
30
48
29
38
28
37
49
27
33
26
50
34
31
35
39
56
42
36
32
46
45
40
41
52
47
51
54
44
68
59
77
80
62
55
57
73
58
43
61
60
74
76
63
67
65
53
71
72
92
83
78
75
85
69
66
82
87
64
97
IDI
2010
8.64
8.18
8.19
7.62
8.43
7.82
7.60
7.82
7.41
8.16
7.73
7.96
7.32
7.28
7.30
7.17
7.22
7.01
7.62
6.70
6.76
7.04
7.03
7.38
6.90
6.53
5.42
6.60
6.04
6.67
6.10
5.38
6.69
6.30
6.69
5.30
6.22
6.38
6.20
6.02
4.96
5.82
6.15
6.38
5.57
5.64
5.96
5.92
5.19
5.45
5.29
5.02
5.75
4.41
4.90
4.18
4.07
4.81
4.99
4.96
4.29
4.91
5.80
4.85
4.89
4.28
4.21
4.69
4.56
4.58
5.05
4.36
4.31
3.62
3.91
4.10
4.28
3.76
4.41
4.56
3.92
3.69
4.67
3.52
Economy
Suriname
St. Lucia
Seychelles
South Africa
Panama
Ecuador
Iran (I.R.)
Jordan
Tunisia
Albania
Mexico
Cape Verde
Kyrgyzstan
Philippines
Morocco
Egypt
Fiji
Viet Nam
Dominican Rep.
Peru
Jamaica
El Salvador
Bolivia
Indonesia
Ghana
Tonga
Botswana
Paraguay
Algeria
Guyana
Sri Lanka
Belize
Syria
Namibia
Bhutan
Honduras
Guatemala
Samoa
Nicaragua
Kenya
Vanuatu
Sudan
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Cuba
Cambodia
India
Senegal
Gabon
Nigeria
Gambia
Nepal
Cte dIvoire
Lao P.D.R.
Solomon Islands
Angola
Congo (Rep.)
Myanmar
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Mali
Equatorial Guinea
Cameroon
Djibouti
Uganda
Mauritania
Benin
Togo
Zambia
Rwanda
Liberia
Afghanistan
Tanzania
Mozambique
Burkina Faso
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
South Sudan
Guinea-Bissau
Malawi
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Chad
Rank
2015
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
IDI
2015
4.99
4.98
4.96
4.90
4.87
4.81
4.79
4.75
4.73
4.73
4.68
4.62
4.62
4.57
4.47
4.40
4.33
4.28
4.26
4.26
4.23
4.20
4.08
3.94
3.90
3.82
3.82
3.79
3.71
3.65
3.64
3.56
3.48
3.41
3.35
3.33
3.26
3.11
3.04
3.02
2.93
2.93
2.90
2.81
2.79
2.74
2.69
2.68
2.68
2.61
2.60
2.59
2.51
2.45
2.42
2.32
2.27
2.27
2.24
2.22
2.22
2.21
2.19
2.19
2.14
2.07
2.05
2.04
2.04
2.04
1.86
1.83
1.82
1.82
1.77
1.65
1.63
1.61
1.61
1.51
1.45
1.22
1.17
Rank
2010
100
70
81
88
79
90
99
84
93
89
86
107
112
105
96
98
102
94
101
91
95
110
113
109
130
111
117
108
114
103
115
104
106
120
128
116
118
121
123
126
124
127
132
141
119
131
125
137
122
133
129
140
142
135
139
144
136
150
138
148
155
134
149
143
151
146
147
145
152
154
161
156
153
160
164
162
158
159
157
165
163
166
IDI
2010
3.39
4.39
3.98
3.65
4.07
3.65
3.48
3.82
3.62
3.65
3.70
3.14
3.02
3.16
3.55
3.48
3.28
3.61
3.38
3.64
3.60
3.10
3.00
3.11
1.98
3.08
2.86
3.11
2.99
3.24
2.97
3.17
3.14
2.63
2.02
2.94
2.86
2.43
2.40
2.09
2.19
2.05
1.97
1.74
2.66
1.98
2.14
1.80
2.41
1.96
1.99
1.75
1.74
1.92
1.78
1.68
1.83
1.58
1.79
1.61
1.46
1.96
1.60
1.69
1.57
1.63
1.63
1.64
1.55
1.47
1.24
1.37
1.54
1.28
1.13
1.23
1.33
1.33
1.34
1.07
1.14
0.88
Chapter 2
Table 2.3: IDI access sub-index rankings and ratings, 2015 and 2010
Economy
Luxembourg
Iceland
Hong Kong, China
United Kingdom
Germany
Switzerland
Malta
Netherlands
Korea (Rep.)
Sweden
Japan
France
Denmark
Singapore
Belgium
Australia
Norway
Ireland
Monaco
Austria
Qatar
Canada
New Zealand
Barbados
Israel
Slovenia
Andorra
Estonia
United Arab Emirates
Macao, China
United States
Finland
Spain
Bahrain
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Belarus
Hungary
St. Kitts and Nevis
Saudi Arabia
Czech Republic
Croatia
Kuwait
Serbia
Brunei Darussalam
Oman
Russian Federation
Latvia
Uruguay
Poland
Antigua & Barbuda
Slovakia
Lithuania
Cyprus
Kazakhstan
Bulgaria
St. Vincent and the G.
TFYR Macedonia
Montenegro
Moldova
Romania
Malaysia
Argentina
Seychelles
Lebanon
Trinidad & Tobago
Chile
Mauritius
Costa Rica
Brazil
Ukraine
Georgia
Grenada
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Maldives
Dominica
Turkey
Iran (I.R.)
Panama
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jordan
Morocco
Rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
Access
2015
9.49
9.37
9.32
9.24
9.22
9.20
9.04
9.04
9.00
8.90
8.85
8.77
8.72
8.64
8.45
8.37
8.24
8.24
8.23
8.21
8.13
8.13
8.08
8.04
7.98
7.94
7.89
7.86
7.86
7.85
7.82
7.81
7.80
7.79
7.77
7.71
7.71
7.68
7.54
7.47
7.42
7.41
7.33
7.31
7.28
7.25
7.24
7.24
7.23
7.15
7.15
7.05
7.04
7.04
7.04
6.92
6.85
6.76
6.75
6.74
6.70
6.69
6.61
6.60
6.59
6.57
6.56
6.55
6.48
6.30
6.28
6.27
6.20
6.14
6.11
6.08
6.03
6.01
6.00
5.97
5.72
5.71
5.69
5.65
Rank
2010
1
2
3
8
7
4
11
6
10
5
15
14
9
12
16
17
13
18
31
20
32
21
19
30
22
27
26
29
42
23
25
24
28
36
33
34
37
54
39
35
56
40
38
51
45
43
68
50
48
55
41
47
49
44
46
57
58
53
64
61
70
60
52
59
72
75
62
65
71
83
76
74
84
63
77
80
69
66
73
82
78
79
81
85
Access
2010
9.40
9.32
9.06
8.75
8.77
9.02
8.50
8.77
8.64
8.99
8.03
8.15
8.70
8.38
7.94
7.90
8.33
7.87
7.35
7.87
7.33
7.86
7.87
7.42
7.73
7.56
7.57
7.44
6.83
7.73
7.59
7.71
7.45
7.22
7.32
7.32
7.11
6.16
6.87
7.31
6.10
6.86
7.11
6.32
6.69
6.83
5.39
6.39
6.65
6.15
6.85
6.66
6.65
6.78
6.67
5.98
5.96
6.19
5.77
5.89
5.35
5.92
6.24
5.94
5.32
5.03
5.87
5.67
5.33
4.55
5.01
5.23
4.50
5.81
4.90
4.73
5.38
5.49
5.27
4.62
4.87
4.77
4.62
4.50
Economy
St. Lucia
Colombia
Venezuela
South Africa
China
Suriname
Ecuador
Thailand
Egypt
El Salvador
Tunisia
Mongolia
Cape Verde
Mexico
Syria
Peru
Fiji
Indonesia
Jamaica
Ghana
Albania
Paraguay
Viet Nam
Philippines
Bolivia
Algeria
Botswana
Tonga
Guyana
Sri Lanka
Guatemala
Kyrgyzstan
Namibia
Dominican Rep.
Honduras
Nicaragua
Gabon
Gambia
Cambodia
Belize
Bhutan
Senegal
Cte dIvoire
Mali
Sudan
Kenya
Samoa
Vanuatu
Lesotho
Pakistan
India
Benin
Lao P.D.R.
Nepal
Zimbabwe
Mauritania
Cameroon
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Equatorial Guinea
Mozambique
Congo (Rep.)
Angola
Afghanistan
Burkina Faso
Zambia
Liberia
Solomon Islands
Togo
Rwanda
Tanzania
Myanmar
Djibouti
Uganda
Guinea-Bissau
Cuba
Malawi
Ethiopia
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Chad
Madagascar
South Sudan
Eritrea
Rank
2015
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
Access
2015
5.55
5.54
5.44
5.31
5.25
5.22
5.21
5.20
5.12
5.04
5.00
4.97
4.90
4.84
4.76
4.68
4.63
4.60
4.57
4.51
4.50
4.44
4.43
4.39
4.31
4.27
4.22
4.20
4.20
4.17
4.16
4.16
4.14
4.12
4.05
4.01
3.91
3.78
3.77
3.65
3.57
3.51
3.44
3.43
3.35
3.30
3.27
3.23
3.18
3.15
3.13
3.08
3.03
2.92
2.89
2.88
2.83
2.82
2.82
2.76
2.74
2.71
2.68
2.64
2.63
2.63
2.59
2.59
2.59
2.54
2.48
2.47
2.44
2.35
2.30
1.98
1.96
1.90
1.83
1.74
1.67
1.28
1.27
Rank
2010
67
86
87
91
99
92
95
93
90
97
96
102
114
94
98
101
100
115
88
140
107
109
89
116
118
110
105
108
106
113
104
119
120
111
103
121
117
123
125
112
134
129
122
139
137
132
127
124
150
130
128
133
136
149
142
131
152
135
147
126
157
138
144
148
151
155
160
153
143
156
145
162
141
154
146
163
159
161
164
165
158
166
Access
2010
5.44
4.36
4.36
4.29
4.08
4.23
4.18
4.20
4.30
4.12
4.13
3.98
3.48
4.18
4.08
4.04
4.06
3.47
4.33
2.15
3.73
3.69
4.31
3.41
3.23
3.64
3.81
3.69
3.75
3.51
3.93
3.20
3.18
3.57
3.95
2.84
3.35
2.77
2.63
3.51
2.41
2.60
2.78
2.18
2.30
2.49
2.61
2.73
1.88
2.60
2.60
2.46
2.32
1.90
2.09
2.54
1.82
2.33
1.92
2.63
1.70
2.29
2.04
1.92
1.84
1.71
1.64
1.75
2.07
1.71
2.03
1.40
2.14
1.72
1.93
1.38
1.64
1.45
1.14
1.13
1.64
1.09
Source: ITU.
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Table 2.4: IDI use sub-index rankings and ratings, 2015 and 2010
Economy
Denmark
Norway
United Kingdom
Korea (Rep.)
Luxembourg
Sweden
Finland
Iceland
Switzerland
Japan
United States
Monaco
Netherlands
Estonia
New Zealand
Singapore
Australia
Bahrain
Hong Kong, China
France
Macao, China
United Arab Emirates
Germany
Qatar
Ireland
Canada
Belgium
Spain
Barbados
Austria
Andorra
Latvia
Czech Republic
Lithuania
Malta
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Slovakia
Croatia
Italy
Poland
Israel
Lebanon
Russian Federation
Slovenia
Uruguay
Belarus
Bulgaria
Hungary
Brazil
Portugal
Costa Rica
Greece
Oman
Cyprus
Chile
Argentina
Malaysia
TFYR Macedonia
Azerbaijan
Serbia
Kazakhstan
Romania
Thailand
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Antigua & Barbuda
Moldova
Montenegro
St. Vincent and the G.
China
Colombia
Venezuela
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
St. Kitts and Nevis
Maldives
St. Lucia
Philippines
Kyrgyzstan
Albania
Mexico
Tunisia
South Africa
Rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
Source: ITU.
48
Use
2015
8.83
8.43
8.42
8.42
8.34
8.32
8.21
8.11
8.01
7.98
7.86
7.78
7.69
7.66
7.63
7.61
7.58
7.56
7.55
7.23
7.22
6.99
6.98
6.93
6.85
6.84
6.76
6.62
6.55
6.47
6.41
6.29
6.29
6.10
6.05
6.03
6.00
5.86
5.85
5.74
5.62
5.57
5.54
5.52
5.42
5.41
5.40
5.22
5.19
5.16
5.14
5.12
5.05
5.05
4.89
4.88
4.76
4.76
4.76
4.70
4.69
4.54
4.48
4.28
4.20
4.08
4.07
4.02
3.91
3.86
3.84
3.83
3.80
3.77
3.74
3.71
3.59
3.55
3.55
3.46
3.40
3.37
3.37
3.37
Rank
2010
5
3
12
1
10
2
4
9
15
7
14
13
11
24
20
6
16
50
19
17
8
46
21
29
22
18
28
34
45
23
30
31
26
42
33
37
53
36
47
35
27
25
75
48
32
51
55
43
41
68
39
73
44
64
38
57
62
52
49
71
54
66
56
103
96
58
70
84
67
74
79
83
59
63
65
40
91
69
104
116
80
81
86
87
Use
2010
7.20
7.55
5.99
8.02
6.53
7.57
7.32
6.54
5.87
7.02
5.90
5.94
6.41
4.79
5.36
7.11
5.75
2.64
5.40
5.66
6.55
3.23
5.34
4.48
5.24
5.42
4.53
4.27
3.28
4.96
4.45
4.42
4.61
3.60
4.39
4.07
2.57
4.11
3.21
4.25
4.60
4.65
1.88
3.19
4.41
2.63
2.46
3.55
3.62
2.11
3.70
1.93
3.44
2.18
3.73
2.36
2.22
2.59
3.03
1.99
2.57
2.13
2.40
1.02
1.21
2.32
2.02
1.61
2.13
1.92
1.77
1.61
2.28
2.21
2.17
3.65
1.36
2.09
1.01
0.58
1.69
1.67
1.51
1.44
Economy
Cape Verde
Mauritius
Mongolia
Armenia
Dominica
Georgia
Viet Nam
Dominican Rep.
Morocco
Seychelles
Panama
Brunei Darussalam
Ecuador
Fiji
Jamaica
Egypt
Ghana
El Salvador
Botswana
Jordan
Bolivia
Grenada
Bhutan
Iran (I.R.)
Ukraine
Peru
Tonga
Zimbabwe
Nigeria
Indonesia
Belize
Namibia
Kenya
Sudan
Paraguay
Vanuatu
Guyana
Algeria
Lesotho
Sri Lanka
Senegal
Cte dIvoire
Samoa
Angola
Honduras
Guatemala
Syria
Nepal
Uganda
Cuba
India
Mauritania
Gambia
Cambodia
Nicaragua
Solomon Islands
Rwanda
Pakistan
Equatorial Guinea
Lao P.D.R.
Burkina Faso
Zambia
Mali
Bangladesh
Congo (Rep.)
Djibouti
Myanmar
South Sudan
Liberia
Ethiopia
Cameroon
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Gabon
Togo
Malawi
Madagascar
Afghanistan
Mozambique
Benin
Tanzania
Guinea-Bissau
Chad
Eritrea
Rank
2015
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
Use
2015
3.26
3.25
3.20
3.19
3.11
3.03
3.01
2.97
2.95
2.94
2.92
2.90
2.90
2.88
2.76
2.71
2.64
2.41
2.37
2.36
2.33
2.28
2.27
2.19
2.17
2.11
2.07
2.03
1.81
1.79
1.79
1.77
1.76
1.73
1.71
1.60
1.57
1.52
1.47
1.44
1.42
1.32
1.31
1.28
1.26
1.23
1.22
1.14
1.10
1.00
0.85
0.85
0.79
0.78
0.77
0.75
0.73
0.69
0.66
0.64
0.63
0.62
0.61
0.60
0.60
0.59
0.58
0.57
0.44
0.38
0.37
0.36
0.36
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.32
0.30
0.29
0.27
0.12
0.09
0.03
Rank
2010
98
76
111
88
61
94
85
92
72
78
77
60
93
106
97
89
123
110
134
99
107
82
121
114
95
90
115
118
109
102
100
105
124
113
108
136
101
119
144
122
131
156
142
128
127
117
112
135
125
120
132
147
130
156
126
140
138
133
143
141
158
129
157
149
145
137
166
160
163
148
164
139
152
154
161
150
146
153
151
159
162
165
Use
2010
1.18
1.85
0.75
1.41
2.23
1.31
1.51
1.34
1.99
1.83
1.83
2.25
1.34
0.84
1.21
1.39
0.50
0.76
0.28
1.16
0.83
1.67
0.53
0.60
1.27
1.37
0.59
0.55
0.82
1.04
1.10
0.89
0.47
0.66
0.83
0.28
1.08
0.55
0.19
0.51
0.31
0.09
0.24
0.39
0.41
0.57
0.72
0.28
0.47
0.53
0.30
0.16
0.32
0.09
0.43
0.25
0.27
0.29
0.21
0.24
0.08
0.35
0.08
0.14
0.17
0.27
0.01
0.08
0.03
0.14
0.02
0.26
0.13
0.10
0.06
0.13
0.16
0.12
0.13
0.08
0.06
0.02
Chapter 2
Table 2.5: IDI skills sub-index rankings and ratings, 2015 and 2010
Economy
Greece
Korea (Rep.)
Finland
Belarus
United States
Australia
Slovenia
Spain
Andorra
Iceland
New Zealand
Denmark
Argentina
Ukraine
Estonia
Netherlands
Lithuania
Norway
Russian Federation
Poland
Belgium
Austria
Ireland
Sweden
Venezuela
Israel
Canada
Hong Kong, China
Portugal
Latvia
Chile
Italy
Germany
Mongolia
Japan
Barbados
Czech Republic
Croatia
Hungary
France
Macao, China
Bulgaria
Monaco
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Uruguay
Grenada
Switzerland
Turkey
Serbia
Slovakia
Romania
Costa Rica
Montenegro
Kazakhstan
Armenia
Cyprus
Cuba
Singapore
Colombia
Albania
Kyrgyzstan
Ecuador
Thailand
Georgia
Peru
Jordan
Moldova
Iran (I.R.)
Mauritius
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kuwait
Bahrain
Antigua & Barbuda
Malta
Brunei Darussalam
Azerbaijan
Dominica
TFYR Macedonia
Luxembourg
Brazil
St. Vincent and the G.
Lebanon
St. Kitts and Nevis
Rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
33
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
Skills
2015
9.92
9.82
9.76
9.75
9.57
9.51
9.44
9.42
9.42
9.35
9.29
9.29
9.28
9.25
9.22
9.21
9.13
9.10
9.04
9.02
8.99
8.97
8.93
8.91
8.91
8.86
8.85
8.84
8.82
8.76
8.70
8.69
8.69
8.69
8.68
8.66
8.66
8.64
8.62
8.58
8.49
8.47
8.46
8.42
8.41
8.40
8.39
8.35
8.35
8.30
8.28
8.18
8.18
8.17
8.07
8.06
8.01
7.99
7.93
7.87
7.85
7.85
7.83
7.83
7.76
7.70
7.66
7.63
7.61
7.59
7.52
7.49
7.49
7.41
7.40
7.34
7.34
7.33
7.30
7.29
7.27
7.24
7.23
7.22
Rank
2010
1
2
3
10
5
9
4
12
20
11
7
13
27
15
17
25
8
14
30
18
22
23
19
16
36
29
33
51
28
21
39
26
50
52
34
24
35
40
32
37
44
48
38
31
64
43
42
47
56
53
46
45
68
41
55
49
54
6
80
58
65
62
77
57
79
67
60
63
85
76
61
66
69
78
59
81
71
70
75
73
74
72
83
84
Skills
2010
9.91
9.87
9.77
9.29
9.52
9.29
9.53
9.19
8.98
9.25
9.39
9.09
8.76
9.06
9.05
8.78
9.35
9.06
8.67
9.02
8.88
8.88
8.99
9.06
8.52
8.71
8.60
8.13
8.71
8.97
8.45
8.77
8.17
8.12
8.57
8.79
8.56
8.44
8.65
8.50
8.37
8.23
8.46
8.65
7.48
8.39
8.39
8.25
7.81
7.95
8.26
8.31
7.38
8.42
7.85
8.23
7.95
9.47
7.13
7.62
7.43
7.51
7.19
7.66
7.16
7.40
7.54
7.50
6.97
7.21
7.51
7.41
7.36
7.17
7.60
7.10
7.25
7.34
7.21
7.24
7.23
7.24
7.06
7.06
Economy
Dominican Rep.
South Africa
Bolivia
Oman
China
Qatar
Panama
Mexico
Algeria
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
United Arab Emirates
Tunisia
Belize
Cape Verde
Malaysia
Guyana
St. Lucia
Paraguay
Fiji
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Viet Nam
Jamaica
Samoa
Egypt
Maldives
Suriname
El Salvador
Honduras
Botswana
Seychelles
Nicaragua
Guatemala
India
Solomon Islands
Syria
Myanmar
Namibia
Ghana
Morocco
Bhutan
Vanuatu
Kenya
Lao P.D.R.
Djibouti
Gabon
Nepal
Lesotho
Congo (Rep.)
Zimbabwe
Cambodia
Cameroon
Sudan
South Sudan
Togo
Bangladesh
Equatorial Guinea
Gambia
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Uganda
Nigeria
Zambia
Angola
Rwanda
Tanzania
Madagascar
Senegal
Pakistan
Eritrea
Benin
Malawi
Liberia
Guinea-Bissau
Afghanistan
Cte dIvoire
Mali
Mozambique
Mauritania
Ethiopia
Burkina Faso
Chad
Rank
2015
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
139
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
Skills
2015
7.14
7.13
7.11
7.09
7.07
7.05
7.05
6.99
6.98
6.97
6.96
6.93
6.93
6.92
6.92
6.77
6.75
6.71
6.71
6.66
6.65
6.56
6.55
6.54
6.51
6.40
6.34
6.16
6.12
6.12
6.02
5.92
5.76
5.65
5.52
5.48
5.44
5.42
5.22
5.20
5.20
5.12
5.07
4.98
4.97
4.94
4.90
4.85
4.85
4.78
4.75
4.65
4.60
4.58
4.46
4.46
4.38
4.28
4.22
3.88
3.85
3.81
3.79
3.71
3.67
3.67
3.58
3.57
3.54
3.54
3.52
3.50
3.44
3.24
3.23
3.21
3.04
3.04
3.00
2.90
2.69
2.31
2.17
Rank
2010
82
95
91
88
99
92
86
98
103
87
94
106
97
96
100
110
102
107
90
105
101
93
104
109
89
108
115
111
114
117
116
112
118
119
120
125
124
113
121
122
128
127
137
123
131
132
144
126
134
129
136
130
133
139
135
142
140
138
143
141
149
147
145
146
150
151
152
153
154
148
156
155
158
163
161
157
160
162
159
164
166
165
Skills
2010
7.06
6.81
6.88
6.93
6.72
6.88
6.94
6.80
6.56
6.94
6.81
6.54
6.80
6.81
6.62
6.36
6.57
6.53
6.89
6.54
6.59
6.85
6.54
6.43
6.90
6.47
6.05
6.13
6.05
5.75
5.96
6.13
5.61
5.47
5.28
4.87
4.89
6.07
5.10
5.02
4.62
4.80
4.20
4.91
4.54
4.45
3.66
4.82
4.41
4.57
4.23
4.57
4.43
4.06
4.29
3.78
3.94
4.15
3.76
3.81
3.45
3.51
3.65
3.54
3.39
3.39
3.28
3.20
3.19
3.45
2.99
3.16
2.80
2.61
2.74
2.95
2.75
2.68
2.78
2.36
1.81
2.01
Source: ITU.
49
50
2.3
Chapter 2
Table
andranking,
ranking,2010-2015
2010-2015
Table 2.6:
2.6 Most
Most dynamic
dynamic countries
countries changes
changes in
in IDI
IDI value
level and
Change in IDI ranking
IDI
rank
2015
Country
IDI
rank
2015
Country
IDI value
change
(2010-15)
57
Costa Rica
23
27
Bahrain
2.22
27
Bahrain
21
57
Costa Rica
2.14
56
Lebanon
21
56
Lebanon
2.12
109
Ghana
21
41
Saudi Arabia
2.09
74
Thailand
18
32
1.94
32
17
54
Oman
1.92
41
Saudi Arabia
15
109
Ghana
1.92
85
Suriname
15
36
Belarus
1.88
97
Kyrgyzstan
15
74
Thailand
1.74
36
Belarus
14
61
Brazil
1.74
54
Oman
14
The experience of these and a number of other high-performing countries is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3.
Source: ITU
Note: The experience of these and a number of other high-performing countries is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3.
Source: ITU.
mobile
rather
reduction
2.3 substitution
The access,
usethan
andany
skills
sub- in
actual access.
indices
Eight
of thedifferences
ten economies
at identified
the top ofbetween
the overall
Significant
can be
Index
also
fall
into
the
top
ten
of
the
use
sub-index
the overall Index and the three sub-indices
of
with,
in
this
case,
the
Netherlands
and
Hong
which it is composed. As noted in Section 2.1,Kong
the
th
(China)
making
for Japan
andmake
Finland
(11per
and
access and
use way
sub-indices
each
up 40
th
12
centinofthe
theoverall
overallIndex).
Index, with the remaining 20
per cent derived from the skills sub-index. While
There
is similarly
broad
consistency
in the
the access
and use
sub-indices
are composed
access
and
use
sub-indices
at
the
bottom
of is
of ICT-specific indicators, the skills sub-index
the
distribution.
Eight
of
the
ten
lowest-ranking
composed of proxy indicators which are essentially
countries
the access
sub-index
are theItlowestconcernedinwith
educational
attainment.
is
ranking
countries
in therelated
Index to
as ICTs
a whole,
therefore
less directly
than the
the
seven
lowest-ranking being wholly consistent
other sub-indices.
between the two. Among the lowest-ranking IDI
countries,
only Burkina
Faso
and Mozambique
Not surprisingly,
given the
overall
composition
record
slightly
higher
access
with Uganda
of the Index, there is a strongrankings,
level of association
and
Cuba
falling
into
the
bottom
ten.
Nine
of the
between rankings in the overall Index and those
ten
lowest-ranking
countries
in
the
overall
Index
in the access and use sub-indices, while there is
also
fallainto
the bottom
twenty
of the use
subclearly
disparity
between
the overall
Index
and
index,
with
Burkina
Faso
again
having
a
higher
the skills sub-index, which is derived from proxy
ranking
than its peers.
indicators.
There
has
been
relatively
changeIDI
in all
thefall
top
The top
ten
economies
inlittle
the overall
performers
in
the
access
and
use
sub-indices
within the top twenty in the access and use
over
the five-year
since
2010. Nine
sub-indices.
Eight period
of the ten
economies
at of
thethe
ten
at the
top
ofamong
the access
sub-index
top economies
of the overall
Index
are
the top
ten in
in
2010
are
still
within
the
top
ten
in
2015,
the access sub-index. Denmark and Norwaywith
are
Denmark
having fallen
out
thisofgroup
(forten
the two countries
which
fallofout
the top
reasons
cited above)
to make
way
Malta.also
Eight
for that index,
while the
top ten
forfor
access
of
the
economies
which
were
in
the
top
ten
of
th
include Germany (14 in the overall Index) and
12
th
the
use(30
sub-index
in 2010
remain low
in the
top tenin
Malta
). Denmarks
relatively
position
in
with
Singapore
andto
Macao
(China)
beingin
the2015,
access
sub-index
is due
a marked
decline
displaced
by thesubscriptions
United Kingdom
andcountry,
Switzerland.
fixed telephone
in that
and
At
the bottom
of appear
the distribution,
would
therefore
to be the only
resultLiberia
of fixed(recovering
from civilrather
war) and
have in
mobile substitution
thanMyanmar
any reduction
raised
themselves
out
of
the
bottom
ten
in
the
actual access.
access sub-index, although there has been a little
more
movement
at the bottom
of top
the of
usethe
subEight of
the ten economies
at the
overall
index.
Index also fall into the top ten of the use sub-index
with, in this case, the Netherlands and Hong Kong
th
There
much more
variation
the(11
overall
(China)ismaking
way for
Japan between
and Finland
and
th and the skills sub-index, which, as already
Index
12 in the overall Index).
mentioned, is derived from non-ICT-specific
indicators.
Only two
of the
economies
in the top
There is similarly
broad
consistency
in the
ten
of the
Index (theatRepublic
of Korea
access
andoverall
use sub-indices
the bottom
of and
Iceland)
fall within
the of
topthe
tenten
in lowest-ranking
this sub-index,
the distribution.
Eight
while
several
of the
topsub-index
ten in theare
overall
Index
countries
in the
access
the lowesthave
relatively
lowinrankings
in as
theaskills
sub-index
ranking
countries
the Index
whole,
the
th
for
example,
the
United
Kingdom
is
in
44
position,
seven lowest-ranking being wholly consistent
Switzerland
48th Among
and Luxembourg
in 80th. IDI
between theintwo.
the lowest-ranking
countries, only Burkina Faso and Mozambique
The
following
lookrankings,
in morewith
detailUganda
record
slightlyparagraphs
higher access
at
some
the changes
haveten.
taken
place
and
Cubaoffalling
into thethat
bottom
Nine
of the
within
the access and
use sub-indices,
and Index
in the
ten lowest-ranking
countries
in the overall
individual
indicators
of which
they
also fall into
the bottom
twenty
of are
the composed.
use subindex, with Burkina Faso again having a higher
ranking than its peers.
The access sub-index
There has been relatively little change in the top
Changes
in the
access
sub-index
2010
performers
in the
access
and usebetween
sub-indices
and
have been
less dynamic
than
those
in
over2015
the five-year
period
since 2010.
Nine
of the
the
use
sub-index.
Countries
at
the
top
of
the
ten economies at the top of the access sub-index
in 2010 are still within the top ten in 2015, with
51
increased
their
scores
by
more
than
1.50 points.
80 .
Double-digit improvements in the rankings were
alsofollowing
made byparagraphs
five countries
African
The
lookininthe
more
detail region
at some
(Cabo
Verde, Lesotho,
Cameroon
of
the changes
that haveMozambique,
taken place within
the access
and use
Mali),
three countries
in the
Arab States
and
sub-indices,
and in the
individual
indicators of
regionthey
(Saudi
the United Arab Emirates and
which
areArabia,
composed.
Qatar), three in the Asia-Pacific region (Indonesia,
Nepal
and China)
and one in Europe (Monaco).
The
access
sub-index
The specific factors behind these improvements in
some of those
are discussed
Chapter
Changes
in the countries
access sub-index
between
2010 3.
and 2015 have been less dynamic than those in
Country
Ghana
Access
rank
2015
36
104
Country
Ghana
Access value
change
(2010-15)
2.37
47
Oman
21
47
Oman
1.85
133
Lesotho
17
70
Costa Rica
1.75
97
Cape Verde
17
73
Georgia
1.71
38
Belarus
16
66
Lebanon
1.54
41
Saudi Arabia
15
38
Belarus
1.52
70
Costa Rica
13
97
Cape Verde
1.41
29
13
61
Moldova
1.36
102
Indonesia
13
80
Iran (I.R.)
1.35
19
Monaco
12
76
Armenia
1.35
145
Mozambique
12
41
Saudi Arabia
1.33
Source: ITU.
Source:
ITU
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Chapter 2
53
Country
Use
rank
2015
Country
Use rank
change
(2010-15)
64
Thailand
39
18
Bahrain
4.91
80
Kyrgyzstan
36
22
3.76
43
Lebanon
32
43
Lebanon
3.66
18
Bahrain
32
37
Saudi Arabia
3.43
65
Suriname
31
64
Thailand
3.26
126
Cte dIvoire
31
29
Barbados
3.26
103
Botswana
31
52
Costa Rica
3.19
79
Philippines
25
50
Brazil
3.05
22
24
65
Suriname
2.98
87
Mongolia
24
47
Belarus
2.95
Source:
Source:ITU.
ITU
54
2.4
Chart
2.3 -by
IDIlevel
ratings
for LDCs compared
with
IDI
values
of development
are illustrated
global
ratings
and
with
all
developing
countries
in Table 2.9 and Chart 2.2. These show that,
while both developed- and developing-country
Chapter
Chapter2 2
groupings
have improved their average IDI
Source: ITU
values since 2010, the gap between them is
persistent.
nominal
disparity
between
average
As shown inThe
Chart
2.3, the
divergence
between
developedand countries
developing-country
values which
LDCs and other
is most substantial
in
was
evident
in
2010
is
marginally
higher
in
2015
the use sub-index. LDCs underperform developing
(3.29
points
as against
3.24),
although
developing
countries
in general
in the
access
sub-index
countries
have closed
theofproportional
gap
(with an average
growth
0.72 points between
between
and developed
countries
2010 andthemselves
2015 as against
0.77 points).
In the
(to
from 50%).
The data
show that
rate
use44%
sub-index,
however,
the average
LDCthe
rating
of
in both
the 0.51
access
and use
sub-indices
hasgrowth
increased
by only
points
as against
has
faster
in developing
than in
1.31been
points
in developing
countries
asdeveloped
a whole,
countries,
reflecting
their
lower
starting
point.
and 1.43 points in the global index. This reflects
The
gapperformance
between thelevels
averages
for developed
higher
in middle-ranking
and
developing
countries
access
index
developing
countries
thanininthe
LDCs,
as well
as has
fallen
3.42 points
to 3.15.
However,
the
higherfrom
performance
levels
among
the high-income
corresponding
in the use sub-index
has grown
countries in thegap
developing-country
grouping.
It
from
3.26
toLDCs
3.71.are failing to keep pace with
implies
that
other countries in the transition from ICT access
Particular
attention
should which
be paidlies
in at
thisthe
context
through usage
to intensity,
heart
to
twoconceptual
overlappingframework
groups of countries,
of the
for the IDI whose
which is
experience
insufficiently
illustrated inisFigure
2.1. represented by the
distinction between developed and developing
countries above. These are the LDCs and the LCCs.
Table
2015
Table 2.9:
2.9 IDI
IDI ratings
ratings by
by development
development status,
status, 2010
2010 and
and 2015
IDI 2015
IDI 2010
Average
Min. Max. Range StDev
value*
CV
Average
Min. Max. Range StDev
value*
CV
Change in
average value
2015-2010
World
5.03 1.17
8.93
7.76
2.21 44.01
4.14 0.88
8.64
7.76
2.08 50.32
0.89
Developed
7.41 4.73
8.88
4.15
1.03 13.95
6.48 3.65
8.43
4.78
1.17 18.10
0.92
Developing
4.12 1.17
8.93
7.76
1.87 45.27
3.24 0.88
8.64
7.76
1.64 50.43
0.88
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Society Report
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55
IDI
% change:
+14.2%
% change:
+21.6%
World
IDI
IDI
IDI
% change:
+27.1%
Developed
Developing
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
% change:
+35.9%
% change:
+21.6%
% change:
+27.1%
World
Developing
LDC
Access sub-index
% change:
+14.5%
World
% change:
+6.9%
% change:
+19.9%
Developed
Access sub-index
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Developing
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
% change:
+37.3%
% change:
+14.5%
World
% change:
+19.9%
Developing
LDCs
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Use sub-index
% change:
+100%
% change:
+65.0%
World
% change:
+38.5%
Developed
Developing
Use sub-index
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
% change:
+100%
% change:
+65.0%
World
2010
Developing
LDCs
2015
2010
Source: ITU.
56
% change:
+255%
2015
Source: ITU.
Chapter 2
Table 2.10: IDI ratings for LDCs compared with global ratings and with all developing countries
2010
Development
status
World
2015
Access
Use
Skills
IDI
Access
Use
Skills
IDI
4.83
2.21
6.61
4.14
5.53
3.64
6.81
5.03
Developed
7.31
4.57
8.67
6.48
7.81
6.32
8.76
7.41
3.89
1.31
5.83
3.24
4.66
2.62
6.06
4.12
>
1.93
0.20
3.56
1.56
2.65
0.71
3.89
2.12
Source: ITU.
9
Estonia
8
7
IDI, 2015
R = 0.8489
Belarus
Moldova
5
4
3
Gabon
Equatorial Guinea
1
0
10000
20000
30000
GNI p.c.
40000
50000
60000
Source: ITU.
57
Countries
42
Average*
Min.
Max.
Range
7.02
5.82
8.64
2.82
Countries
42
Average*
Min.
Max.
Range
7.90
7.00
8.93
1.93
Upper
41
4.74
3.91
5.80
1.88
41
5.95
5.05
6.93
1.88
Medium
42
3.19
2.14
3.82
1.69
42
4.13
2.93
5.00
2.08
Low
42
1.61
0.88
2.09
1.22
42
2.16
1.17
2.93
1.76
World
167
4.14
0.88
8.64
7.76
167
5.03
1.17
8.93
7.76
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IDI 2015
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IDI Groups
Low
Medium
Upper
High
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Scale: 1:1,000,000
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delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and
Pakistan. The nal status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties. Final boundary between the Republic of Sudan and the
Republic of South Sudan has not yet been determined. Final status of the Abyei area is not yet determined. A dispute exists between the Governments
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The base map for this infographic is based on the UNmap database of the United Nations Cartographic Section. UNmap is being updated on a
continuous basis.
Source: ITU.
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IDI
IDI
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
% change:
% change:
+12.4%
% change:
+25.4%
+30.4%
High
Upper
Medium
% change:
+35.7%
Low
Access sub-index
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
% change:
+5.0%
High
% change:
+35.8%
% change:
% change:
+14.7%
+24.0%
Upper
Medium
Low
Use sub-index
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
% change:
+156.9%
% change:
+33.2%
High
% change:
+86.8%
Upper
Medium
2010
2015
% change:
+219.9%
Low
Source: ITU.
2.5 Conclusion
The analysis of the ICT Development Index for
2015 in this chapter, and the comparisons drawn
between it and the Index for 2010, confirm
a number of observations made in Chapter 1
and, more broadly, about global trends in ICT
markets and their relationship with development
objectives.
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61
Endnotes
62
This section is based on earlier editions of the Measuring the Information Society Report. The reader should also consult
Annex 1 to this report, as well as the 2009 edition of Measuring the Information Society (ITU, 2009), which describe the
methodology in more detail.
Data on the indicators included in the skills sub-index are sourced from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). See
Annex 2 for more details on the definition of the indicators.
Household surveys traditionally ask about the availability of assets in the household, such as television, electricity,
refrigerator or piped water. A similar principle has been adopted for ICT equipment and services, i.e. that they should be
available for use by household members at home, regardless of whether they are used. They do not need to be owned
by the household.
See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm.
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11
Introduction
3.2
CIS
Arab States
The Americas
W
IDI 2015
CV
D Z ^
Max.
IDI 2010
D Z ^
CV
Z
CV
63
7.35
IDI 2015
5.81
5.10
5.09
4.70
4
3
1
0
2.53
Regional average
World average: 5.03
Range
Europe
CIS
Arab States
The Americas
Africa
Source: ITU.
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Chapter 3
Country
IDI
Global IDI
rank
Denmark
Iceland
United Kingdom
Sweden
Luxembourg
8.88
8.86
8.75
8.67
8.59
2
3
4
5
6
TFYR Macedonia
Montenegro
Turkey
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Albania
6.07
5.90
5.58
5.28
60
65
69
77
4.73
94
Country
IDI
Global IDI
rank
Bahrain
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
7.63
7.44
7.32
7.05
6.83
27
31
32
41
46
12
13
14
15
16
Algeria
Syria
Sudan
Djibouti
Mauritania
3.71
3.48
2.93
2.19
2.07
113
117
126
148
150
1
2
3
4
5
Belarus
Russian Federation
Kazakhstan
Moldova
Azerbaijan
7.18
6.91
6.20
5.81
5.79
36
45
58
66
67
5
6
7
8
9
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Georgia
Ukraine
Kyrgyzstan
5.79
5.32
5.25
5.23
4.62
67
76
78
79
97
1
2
3
4
5
Mauritius
Seychelles
South Africa
Cape Verde
Ghana
5.41
4.96
4.90
4.62
3.90
73
87
88
96
109
33
34
35
36
37
Malawi
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Chad
1.61
1.51
1.45
1.22
1.17
163
164
165
166
167
Regional IDI
rank
Arab States
1
2
3
4
5
CIS
Korea (Rep.)
Hong Kong, China
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
8.93
8.52
8.47
8.29
8.14
1
9
11
13
16
Solomon Islands
Myanmar
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
2.42
2.27
2.24
2.22
1.83
139
142
143
144
156
Africa
United States
Canada
Barbados
Uruguay
Argentina
8.19
7.76
7.57
6.70
6.40
15
23
29
49
52
Belize
Honduras
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Cuba
3.56
3.33
3.26
3.04
2.79
116
120
121
123
129
Source: ITU.
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Chart 3.2: Average IDI rating for each indicator, world regions, 2010 and 2015
World
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
1.0
Adult literacy
0.8
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Households with
computer
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Africa
Arab States
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
1.0
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
0.8
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Adult literacy
Households with
computer
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
Internet
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Internet users
1.0
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Tertiary
enrolment
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
CIS
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
1.0
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
Adult literacy
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
0.8
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
Adult literacy
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Internet users
2010
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
2015
67
Chart 3.2: Average IDI rating for each indicator, world regions, 2010 and 2015 (continued)
Europe
The Americas
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
Adult literacy
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
2010
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
2015
Source: ITU.
Africa
The IDI values for Africa are set out in Table 3.3
and Chart 3.3. As noted above, this region shows
by far the lowest IDI performance levels of any
region. Only one country, Mauritius, had an IDI
value above the global average in IDI 2015, and
only four countries Mauritius, Seychelles, South
Africa and Cape Verde ranked in the top 100
out of 167, or exceeded the average value for
developing countries in IDI 2015.
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Arab States
IDI ratings for the Arab States region are set
out in Table 3.4 and Chart 3.4, where they are
compared with the global average and averages
for developed and developing countries. The top
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Regional rank
2015
Global rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
73
87
88
96
109
111
118
124
127
128
132
133
134
135
137
140
141
145
146
147
149
151
152
153
154
155
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
IDI 2015
5.41
4.96
4.90
4.62
3.90
3.82
3.41
3.02
2.90
2.81
2.68
2.68
2.61
2.60
2.51
2.32
2.27
2.22
2.21
2.19
2.14
2.05
2.04
2.04
2.04
1.86
1.82
1.82
1.77
1.65
1.63
1.61
1.61
1.51
1.45
1.22
1.17
2.53
Global rank
2010
72
81
88
107
130
117
120
126
132
141
137
122
133
129
142
144
136
155
134
149
151
147
145
152
154
161
153
160
165
162
158
159
157
166
164
167
IDI 2010
4.31
3.98
3.65
3.14
1.98
2.86
2.63
2.09
1.97
1.74
1.80
2.41
1.96
1.99
1.74
1.68
1.83
1.46
1.96
1.60
1.57
1.63
1.64
1.55
1.47
1.24
1.54
1.28
1.13
1.23
1.33
1.33
1.34
1.07
1.14
0.88
1.89
Global rank
change
2015-2010
-1
-6
0
11
21
6
2
2
5
13
5
-11
-1
-6
5
4
-5
10
-12
2
2
-4
-7
-1
0
6
-4
2
6
2
-4
-4
-7
1
-2
0
Source: ITU.
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Developed
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
World
Developing
Africa
Mauritius
Seychelles
South Africa
Cape Verde
Ghana
Botswana
Namibia
Kenya
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Senegal
Gabon
Nigeria
Gambia
Cte d'Ivoire
Angola
Congo (Rep.)
Mali
Equatorial Guinea
Cameroon
Uganda
Benin
Togo
Zambia
Rwanda
Liberia
Tanzania
Mozambique
Burkina Faso
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
South Sudan
Guinea-Bissau
Malawi
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Chad
IDI 2015
Source: ITU.
Regional rank
2015
Global rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
27
31
32
41
46
54
56
92
93
99
100
113
117
126
148
150
Bahrain
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Oman
Lebanon
Jordan
Tunisia
Morocco
Egypt
Algeria
Syria
Sudan
Djibouti
Mauritania
Average
IDI 2015
7.63
7.44
7.32
7.05
6.83
6.33
6.29
4.75
4.73
4.47
4.40
3.71
3.48
2.93
2.19
2.07
5.10
Global rank
2010
48
37
49
56
45
68
77
84
93
96
98
114
106
127
143
146
IDI 2010
5.42
6.10
5.38
4.96
5.64
4.41
4.18
3.82
3.62
3.55
3.48
2.99
3.14
2.05
1.69
1.63
3.88
Global rank
change
2015-2010
21
6
17
15
-1
14
21
-8
0
-3
-2
1
-11
1
-5
-4
Source: ITU.
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Mauritania
Djibouti
Sudan
Syria
Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Jordan
Lebanon
Oman
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab
Emirates
Arab States
World
Developing
Qatar
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Bahrain
IDI 2015
Source: ITU.
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Regional rank
2015
Global rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
1
9
11
13
16
19
24
64
71
74
81
82
84
91
98
101
102
108
110
115
119
122
125
130
131
136
138
139
142
143
144
156
Korea (Rep.)
Hong Kong, China
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
Singapore
Macao, China
Malaysia
Brunei Darussalam
Thailand
Maldives
China
Mongolia
Iran (I.R.)
Philippines
Fiji
Viet Nam
Indonesia
Tonga
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
Samoa
Vanuatu
Cambodia
India
Nepal
Lao P.D.R.
Solomon Islands
Myanmar
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
Average
IDI 2015
8.93
8.52
8.47
8.29
8.14
8.08
7.73
5.90
5.53
5.36
5.08
5.05
5.00
4.79
4.57
4.33
4.28
3.94
3.82
3.64
3.35
3.11
2.93
2.74
2.69
2.59
2.45
2.42
2.27
2.24
2.22
1.83
4.70
Global rank
2010
1
13
9
15
19
11
14
61
53
92
82
87
97
99
105
102
94
109
111
115
128
121
124
131
125
140
135
139
150
138
148
156
IDI 2010
8.64
7.41
7.73
7.32
7.17
7.62
7.38
4.85
5.05
3.62
3.92
3.69
3.52
3.48
3.16
3.28
3.61
3.11
3.08
2.97
2.02
2.43
2.19
1.98
2.14
1.75
1.92
1.78
1.58
1.79
1.61
1.37
3.85
Global rank
change
2015-2010
0
4
-2
2
3
-8
-10
-3
-18
18
1
5
13
8
7
1
-8
1
1
0
9
-1
-1
1
-6
4
-3
0
8
-5
4
0
Source: ITU.
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9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Developed
World
Asia and the Pacic
Developing
Korea (Rep.)
Hong Kong, China
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
Singapore
Macao, China
Malaysia
Brunei Darussalam
Thailand
Maldives
China
Mongolia
Iran (I.R.)
Philippines
Fiji
Viet Nam
Indonesia
Tonga
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
Samoa
Vanuatu
Cambodia
India
Nepal
Lao P.D.R.
Solomon Islands
Myanmar
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
IDI 2015
Source: ITU.
Regional rank
2015
Global rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
36
45
58
66
67
76
78
79
97
IDI 2015
Global rank
2010
7.18
6.91
6.20
5.81
5.79
5.32
5.25
5.23
4.62
5.81
50
46
62
74
76
78
85
69
112
IDI 2010
Global rank
change
2015-2010
5.30
5.57
4.81
4.28
4.21
4.10
3.76
4.41
3.02
4.38
14
1
4
8
9
2
7
-10
15
Source: ITU.
IDI 2015
Developed
6
5
4
CIS countries
World
Developing
3
2
1
0
Belarus
Georgia
Ukraine Kyrgyzstan
Source: ITU.
Europe
All countries in the Europe region, apart from
Albania, have IDI values above the global average
of 5.03 and fall within the high and upper quartiles
of the Index, reflecting the regions high levels of
economic development and GNI p.c. Eight of the
73
Regional rank
2015
Global rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
12
14
17
18
20
21
22
25
26
28
30
33
34
35
37
38
39
40
42
43
44
47
48
50
51
53
59
60
65
69
77
94
Denmark
Iceland
United Kingdom
Sweden
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Netherlands
Norway
Finland
Germany
France
Monaco
Estonia
Belgium
Ireland
Austria
Spain
Andorra
Malta
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Israel
Latvia
Italy
Greece
Lithuania
Croatia
Portugal
Poland
Slovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Serbia
Cyprus
Romania
TFYR Macedonia
Montenegro
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Albania
Average
IDI 2015
8.88
8.86
8.75
8.67
8.59
8.56
8.53
8.49
8.36
8.22
8.12
8.10
8.05
7.88
7.82
7.67
7.66
7.60
7.52
7.23
7.21
7.19
7.16
7.12
7.09
7.08
7.00
6.93
6.91
6.82
6.82
6.52
6.45
6.37
6.11
6.07
5.90
5.58
5.28
4.73
7.35
Global rank
2010
4
3
10
2
8
12
7
5
6
17
18
22
25
24
20
23
30
29
28
27
33
26
34
31
35
39
42
36
32
40
41
47
51
44
55
57
60
67
75
89
IDI 2010
8.18
8.19
7.62
8.43
7.82
7.60
7.82
8.16
7.96
7.28
7.22
7.01
6.70
6.76
7.04
6.90
6.53
6.60
6.67
6.69
6.30
6.69
6.22
6.38
6.20
6.02
5.82
6.15
6.38
5.96
5.92
5.45
5.29
5.75
4.99
4.96
4.89
4.56
4.28
3.65
6.48
Global rank
change
2015-2010
2
0
6
-3
2
5
-1
-5
-6
3
1
4
5
3
-2
-2
4
1
-2
-6
-1
-9
-3
-7
-4
-1
0
-7
-12
-7
-7
-3
0
-9
-4
-3
-5
-2
-2
-5
Source: ITU.
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9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Developed
Europe
World
Developing
Denmark
Iceland
United Kingdom
Sweden
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Netherlands
Norway
Finland
Germany
France
Monaco
Estonia
Belgium
Ireland
Austria
Spain
Andorra
Malta
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Israel
Latvia
Italy
Greece
Lithuania
Croatia
Portugal
Poland
Slovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Serbia
Cyprus
Romania
TFYR Macedonia
Montenegro
Turkey
Bosnia and H
Albania
IDI 2015
Source: ITU.
The Americas
The United States, Canada and Barbados lead the
IDI rankings in the Americas, which are set out in
Table 3.8 and Chart 3.8, with IDI values of 8.19,
7.76 and 7.57, respectively. These three countries
75
Regional rank
2015
Global
rank
2015
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
15
23
29
49
52
55
57
61
62
63
68
70
72
75
80
83
85
86
89
90
95
103
104
105
106
107
112
114
116
120
121
123
129
IDI 2015
8.19
7.76
7.57
6.70
6.40
6.31
6.20
6.03
5.93
5.92
5.69
5.57
5.48
5.32
5.12
5.05
4.99
4.98
4.87
4.81
4.68
4.26
4.26
4.23
4.20
4.08
3.79
3.65
3.56
3.33
3.26
3.04
2.79
5.09
Global rank
2010
16
21
38
52
54
59
80
73
58
43
63
65
71
83
66
64
100
70
79
90
86
101
91
95
110
113
108
103
104
116
118
123
119
IDI 2010
7.30
7.03
6.04
5.19
5.02
4.90
4.07
4.29
4.91
5.80
4.69
4.58
4.36
3.91
4.56
4.67
3.39
4.39
4.07
3.65
3.70
3.38
3.64
3.60
3.10
3.00
3.11
3.24
3.17
2.94
2.86
2.40
2.66
4.17
Global rank
change
2015-2010
1
-2
9
3
2
4
23
12
-4
-20
-5
-5
-1
8
-14
-19
15
-16
-10
0
-9
-2
-13
-10
4
6
-4
-11
-12
-4
-3
0
-10
Source: ITU.
3.3
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9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Developed
Americas
World
Developing
United States
Barbados
Canada
Uruguay
Argentina
Chile
Costa Rica
Brazil
Antigua & Barbuda
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Vincent and
Trinidad & Tobago
Venezuela
Colombia
Dominica
Grenada
Suriname
St. Lucia
Panama
Ecuador
Mexico
Dominican Rep.
Peru
Jamaica
El Salvador
Bolivia
Paraguay
Guyana
Belize
Honduras
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Cuba
IDI 2015
Source: ITU.
77
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
1.0
0.8
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Denmark
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
1.0
0.8
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
United Kingdom
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
0.4
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
2010
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
2015
Source: ITU.
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Z
IDI rank
change
(2010-15)
IDI
rank
2015
Country
IDI value
change Region
(2010-15)
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^
57
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56
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56
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Chart 3.10: IDI ratings for dynamic countries, Arab States region, 2010 and 2015
Bahrain
Oman
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
1.0
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
0.8
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Adult literacy
Households with
Internet
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
Households with
Internet
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
0.4
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
0.0
Adult literacy
Households with
Internet
1.0
0.8
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Households with
computer
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Internet users
Saudi Arabia
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Households with
computer
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Lebanon
Adult literacy
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.4
Internet users
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
0.8
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
Households with
computer
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
1.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Internet users
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
1.0
0.8
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
2010
Internet users
2015
Source: ITU.
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Brazil
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
0.4
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Costa Rica
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
1.0
0.8
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Suriname
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
84
0.8
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
Tertiary
enrolment
Secondary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.2
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
2010
Source: ITU.
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
2015
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Mobile-cellular subscriptions
8'000'000
7'000'000
Alternative operators
ICE (incumbent)
6'000'000
5'000'000
4'000'000
3'000'000
2'000'000
1'000'000
0
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Source: ITU, based on data from the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones, Costa Rica (2014).
85
140
140
120
120
100
100
80
80
60
60
40
40
20
20
2010
2G
2011
Subscriptions by technology
3G
LTE
2012
M2M
2013
2014
Source: ITU, based on data from ANATEL (2015) and CETICs Portal de Visualizao de Dados (http://data.cetic.br).
86
Chart Box 3.6: Mobile-cellular subscriptions by technology and percentage of individuals owning
a mobile phone, Brazil, 2010-2014
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87
3.4 Conclusion
The IDI demonstrates the very wide range of
ICT environments within the world community,
from economies with very high levels of ICT
performance to Least Connected Countries which
are still seeking to progress from basic access
to ICT intensity and impact. Each individual
economy faces different challenges, related
to its geography, infrastructure requirements
and social and economic structure, and to the
financial resources and capabilities available to
its people. While issues of national context are
crucial to policy development, it is also possible for
governments and ICT businesses to draw on the
experience of other countries when developing
their plans for the deployment and take-up of
telecommunications, broadband and Internet.
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89
Belarus
Ghana
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
1.0
0.8
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Adult literacy
Tertiary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Source: ITU.
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
1.0
0.8
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
Tertiary
enrolment
0.4
0.2
0.0
Secondary
enrolment
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
Thailand
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions
Adult literacy
Tertiary
enrolment
Secondary
enrolment
1.0
0.8
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
Active
mobile-broadband
subscriptions
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
2010
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
2015
Source: ITU.
90
International
Internet bandwidth
per Internet user
0.2
Secondary
enrolment
2010
Kyrgyzstan
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions
Households with
computer
Households with
Internet
Internet users
2015
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Endnotes
1
Georgia exited the Commonwealth on 18 August 2009 but is included in the ITU/BDT administrative region for the CIS
countries.
For more information on the IDI performance of the Republic of Korea prior to 2010, see Box 2.3 in ITU (2010).
http://www.teliasonera.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2012/6/telia-customers-in-denmark-to-benefit-from-
growing-4g-network/.
http://www.tra.gov.lb/NewsDetails.aspx?pageid=1916.
See TRAs website for more information on the structure of the Lebanese telecommunication markets: http://www.tra.
gov.lb/Market-Data-Facts-and-figures.
A basic fixed-broadband package (1 Mbit/s at RS35 per month, approximatively USD 15/month) is to be commercially
available in all Brazilian cities in 2014 (MiniCom, Brazil, 2014).
Several initiatives were undertaken in the framework of PNBL to promote the uptake of computers and the Internet,
including the tax exemption of computers, tablets and smartphones produced in the country, as well as the exemption
from all federal taxes of access terminals in rural areas (ibid.).
10
http://www.ais.co.th/4g/home-en.html.
11
http://truemoveh.truecorp.co.th/truemoveh4g/en/index.html.
12
13
http://a4ai.org/ghana-drops-import-tax-on-smartphones-following-advocacy-by-a4ai-ghana-coalition/.
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Chart 4.1: Barriers to household Internet access (as a percentage of households without Internet access),
2013
Percentage of households without
Internet access
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Mexico
Brazil
Iran (I.R.)
Bahrain
Oman
Colombia Singapore
Note: Multiple answers regarding reasons for lack of Internet access are possible.
Source: ITU Yearbook of Statistics, 2014.
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ITU collects and publishes price data for fixedtelephone, mobile-cellular and fixed- and mobilebroadband services, and has adapted its price data
collection to ICT trends (Box 4.1).
Chapter 4
1986
2003
2009
2012
First xedtelephone
price data
First mobile-cellular
price data
First xedbroadband
price data
First mobilebroadband
price data
Fixedtelephony is
the key
communication
service and
there are
370 million
xed-telephone
subscriptions
globally
1 million
mobilecellular
subscriptions
2002
The number
of mobilecellular
subscriptions
reaches 1
billion and
surpasses the
number of
xed-telephone
subscriptions
2011
The number
of mobilebroadband
subscriptions
reaches
1 billion
Source: ITU.
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Box 4.2: Prices and affordability relative and absolute ICT price values
Throughout this chapter, prices are expressed in both absolute and relative terms and in three
complementary units:
In USD, using the IMF annual rates of exchange.
In international dollars (PPP$), using purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factors instead
of market exchange rates. The use of PPP exchange factors helps to screen out price and
exchange-rate distortions, thus providing a measure of the cost of a given service taking into
account purchasing power equivalences between countries.9
As a percentage of countries monthly GNI p.c. (Atlas method).10 Prices are expressed as
a percentage of GNI p.c. in order to show them in relation to the size of each countrys
economy, thus reflecting the affordability of each ICT service at a country level.
The methodological details of the IPB and the collection of mobile-broadband prices are available
in Annex 3 to this report. Annex 5 includes the statistical tables of prices used to compute the ICT
Price Basket.
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4.2
Fixed-telephone prices
Although fixed-line penetration reached its highest
global level of 19.2 per cent in 2006 and has
since been falling (to an estimated 14.4 per cent
by the end of 2015), fixed telephony remains an
important communication service in developed
countries and in (mainly) urban areas of the
developing world. In addition, it is still a basic
service for mediumsized to large organizations
(both public and private).
The great majority of people in the developing
countries, in particular those in rural and
remote areas, do not have access to the fixedtelephone network. Fixed networks have been
overtaken by mobilecellular networks, in terms
both of geographical coverage and number of
subscriptions.11 In a few countries, the mobile
network has entirely replaced the traditional
fixed-line network.12 This shift is confirmed by
the growth in mobile traffic, with mobile voice
call minutes largely outnumbering fixed voice
call minutes across developed and developing
countries. International voice call minutes remain
an exception, as more international calls continue
to be made over the fixed network, particularly
in developed countries. This is due to the often
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Chart 4.2: Fixed-telephone basket, as a percentage of GNI p.c. (top graph), in USD (middle graph), and
PPP$ (bottom graph), 2008-2014
25
As a % of GNI p.c.
20
15
10
5
0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
25
20
USD
15
10
5
0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
World
Developed
25
PPP$
20
15
10
5
0
Developing
LDCs
Note: Simple averages. Based on 140 economies for which data on fixed-telephone prices were available for 20082014.
Source: ITU.
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Iran (I.R.)
Cuba
Venezuela
Qatar
Macao, China
Singapore
Moldova
Kuwait
Kazakhstan
Russian Federation
Bahrain
Korea (Rep.)
Norway
Andorra
UAE
Belarus
Suriname
Hong Kong, China
Switzerland
Brunei Darussalam
United States
Trinidad & Tobago
Luxembourg
Oman
Azerbaijan
Australia
Sweden
Japan
Malta
Saudi Arabia
Uzbekistan
Mauritius
Israel
Canada
Denmark
Germany
Iceland
Austria
Georgia
France
Maldives
Uruguay
Seychelles
Estonia
Armenia
Finland
Netherlands
Latvia
China
Yemen
Bahamas
Ukraine
Lithuania
Egypt
Guyana
Slovenia
Malaysia
Belgium
United Kingdom
Costa Rica
St. Kitts and Nevis
Sri Lanka
Lebanon
Cyprus
Kyrgyzstan
Antigua & Barbuda
Indonesia
Greece
Ireland
Slovakia
Italy
Viet Nam
Turkey
New Zealand
Croatia
Bhutan
Algeria
Thailand
Romania
Spain
Montenegro
Portugal
Tunisia
Ecuador
Mongolia
Serbia
Czech Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Poland
Barbados
Fixed-telephone sub-basket
as % of
USD
PPP$
GNI p.c.
0.05
0.05
0.12
0.13
0.16
0.19
0.21
0.23
0.27
0.28
0.29
0.30
0.30
0.31
0.33
0.33
0.40
0.44
0.44
0.45
0.45
0.46
0.47
0.48
0.52
0.55
0.58
0.58
0.60
0.60
0.62
0.64
0.65
0.66
0.67
0.70
0.72
0.76
0.76
0.78
0.78
0.79
0.79
0.81
0.84
0.85
0.85
0.87
0.89
0.89
0.90
0.92
0.93
0.95
0.97
1.00
1.01
1.03
1.03
1.06
1.09
1.10
1.11
1.16
1.17
1.18
1.19
1.21
1.21
1.22
1.23
1.24
1.25
1.27
1.27
1.30
1.30
1.32
1.33
1.33
1.33
1.40
1.43
1.45
1.46
1.48
1.58
1.60
1.70
1.73
0.25
0.27
1.22
9.07
8.39
8.69
0.43
8.79
2.62
3.26
4.76
6.47
25.99
10.55
10.62
1.86
3.10
14.19
33.56
12.39
20.20
6.01
27.60
10.17
3.19
29.70
29.69
22.48
10.45
13.20
0.97
5.11
18.36
28.89
34.57
27.40
27.64
31.71
2.27
28.11
3.62
9.97
8.72
12.05
2.64
34.51
36.22
11.04
4.85
0.98
16.25
3.02
11.50
2.49
3.04
19.34
8.74
39.59
35.87
8.45
12.61
2.91
9.10
24.27
1.17
12.78
3.54
22.81
43.38
18.07
36.54
1.80
11.38
38.16
14.20
2.52
5.78
5.85
10.00
33.17
8.05
24.84
5.01
6.94
4.59
7.45
24.98
19.11
18.74
22.00
0.76
1.60
12.32
11.35
9.10
1.04
13.54
5.23
7.48
8.12
7.45
16.48
14.60
5.69
5.25
18.23
19.95
18.91
20.20
7.51
21.15
19.43
7.60
21.43
22.09
21.25
11.79
26.96
8.24
15.14
24.71
23.03
24.92
22.27
27.53
4.99
23.82
4.71
12.45
13.05
14.35
5.71
26.07
30.33
20.56
7.92
2.19
14.29
11.19
16.83
8.63
4.67
21.65
17.99
33.24
27.65
12.45
15.55
8.10
24.71
3.40
15.55
9.57
23.79
33.62
24.20
32.94
4.44
18.74
29.36
19.68
7.92
13.51
14.55
17.31
33.01
13.19
28.43
11.29
12.16
11.73
13.33
35.83
26.98
31.13
17.74
GNI p.c.,
USD, 2014*
5774
6010
12537
86703
64639
53986
2468
46046
11538
13836
19881
25894
102597
40974
38713
6723
9361
38382
90589
32976
53417
15744
69810
25381
7343
65335
61648
46284
20959
26234
1878
9560
33896
52158
61608
47203
46244
50340
3556
43476
5594
15165
13197
17762
3796
48771
51009
15275
6553
1329
21548
3956
14885
3137
3746
23197
10420
46294
41638
9540
13876
3167
9860
25185
1209
13037
3576
22667
43047
17792
35584
1738
10959
36089
13407
2328
5325
5335
9041
29910
7243
21249
4196
5754
3766
6044
18951
14306
13227
15219
Rank Economy
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
Albania
Panama
Hungary
Swaziland
Bulgaria
India
Jordan
Brazil
St. Vincent
Botswana
Chile
Ethiopia
TFYR Macedonia
Dominica
Grenada
Mexico
Guatemala
Ghana
St. Lucia
Sudan
Peru
Fiji
Namibia
Paraguay
Morocco
Bosnia and H.
South Sudan
Jamaica
Afghanistan
South Africa
El Salvador
Colombia
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Dominican Rep.
Honduras
Cape Verde
Samoa
Angola
Lao P.D.R.
Nepal
Zambia
Lesotho
Micronesia
Nicaragua
Cambodia
Kiribati
Pakistan
Gabon
Philippines
Gambia
Timor-Leste
Belize
Sierra Leone
Burundi
S. Tome & Principe
Haiti
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Congo (Rep.)
Uganda
Eritrea
Bolivia
Marshall Islands
Kenya
Zimbabwe
Senegal
Vanuatu
Cte dIvoire
Mali
Tanzania
Togo
Benin
Chad
Burkina Faso
Mozambique
Comoros
Liberia
Mauritania
Niger
Malawi
Madagascar
Central African Rep.
Argentina**
Somalia**
Djibouti**
San Marino**
Monaco**
Liechtenstein**
Fixed-telephone sub-basket
as % of
USD
PPP$
GNI p.c.
1.77
1.81
1.81
1.84
1.86
1.87
1.88
1.90
2.02
2.05
2.07
2.08
2.15
2.15
2.15
2.18
2.23
2.24
2.28
2.28
2.29
2.39
2.45
2.52
2.56
2.56
2.67
2.71
2.74
2.79
2.92
2.96
2.96
3.06
3.08
3.61
3.62
3.70
3.75
3.86
4.11
4.12
4.14
4.39
4.57
4.80
5.17
5.21
5.69
5.79
5.88
5.95
6.26
6.34
6.34
6.74
7.38
7.68
8.21
8.97
9.68
11.18
11.33
12.75
13.19
14.22
14.33
15.12
16.74
18.00
18.06
18.98
19.37
20.88
22.68
24.74
28.92
29.30
32.32
35.43
47.04
47.38
93.77
6.64
16.08
19.99
4.58
11.38
2.45
7.73
18.50
10.86
13.29
26.28
0.81
8.70
12.39
13.41
18.07
6.21
3.30
13.41
2.95
11.98
8.69
11.98
8.42
6.42
10.18
2.11
11.76
1.57
17.23
9.03
18.68
2.49
6.91
14.77
6.56
10.91
12.22
16.15
4.66
2.50
6.20
5.17
12.00
6.81
3.80
11.27
5.90
50.48
15.77
2.45
19.72
23.49
3.48
1.37
8.24
4.98
12.92
10.94
19.35
4.84
4.56
24.05
45.75
12.74
10.18
12.53
39.40
20.21
10.04
12.93
8.38
12.74
17.90
14.16
12.57
20.23
10.00
28.52
11.80
10.57
17.36
24.98
2.30
2.50
7.65
20.90
21.44
33.09
12.34
27.37
32.38
11.05
21.59
8.52
16.11
24.28
14.39
24.44
38.13
2.28
17.16
16.53
17.51
25.67
11.85
10.79
16.58
6.60
21.06
13.12
23.32
15.83
12.92
17.69
18.25
4.56
36.19
17.18
30.74
7.05
12.13
29.56
12.82
18.97
15.13
18.57
12.01
8.37
13.84
13.51
17.40
9.82
20.56
69.76
36.15
8.86
29.28
40.34
7.42
3.54
13.08
10.00
14.04
10.50
30.35
11.43
53.57
28.31
18.62
25.53
33.26
42.25
22.12
30.29
17.68
26.91
31.94
31.25
24.54
33.83
18.44
71.84
25.70
38.63
54.70
44.47
GNI p.c.,
USD, 2014*
4505
10689
13247
2987
7353
1568
4945
11678
6454
7762
15215
470
4865
6923
7483
9930
3337
1768
7053
1548
6264
4366
5864
4006
3017
4775
949
5215
689
7403
3716
7582
1009
2707
5764
2178
3616
3966
5165
1449
729
1808
1499
3277
1788
949
2617
1359
10639
3267
500
3976
4505
659
260
1469
809
2018
1598
2587
599
490
2547
4306
1159
859
1049
3127
1449
669
859
529
789
1029
749
609
839
410
1059
400
270
440
320
13.06
20.19
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
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Mobile-cellular prices
Key drivers for strong growth in the mobile-cellular
markets have been technological advances,
prepaid payment methods and a marked fall
in prices driven largely by a high degree of
market liberalization and economies of scale.
As the number of mobile-cellular subscriptions
approaches 7.3 billion and mobile population
coverage reaches close to 95 per cent globally,
prices continue to fall. Mobile-cellular price data
from 2008-2014 confirm that, globally, prices have
continued to decrease in terms of USD and PPP$,
as well as relative to the percentage of GNI p.c.
(see Chart 4.3). Prices correspond to the monthly
cost of a prepaid low-user basket including
voice and SMS services (see Annex 2 for more
information on the composition of the mobilecellular basket).
The following key trends, among others, can be
observed in terms of relative and absolute mobilecellular prices.
Between 2013 and 2014, prices continued
to fall across both developed and developing
regions, in relative as well as in absolute
terms, albeit at lower rates than in previous
years. Even in the developed countries, where
mobile-cellular use has become relatively
inexpensive, the mobile-cellular basket value
has decreased in USD and PPP$ values and as
a percentage of GNI p.c. (from an average of
1.5 per cent to 1.4 per cent).
By 2014, the mobile-cellular basket
represented on average 5.6 per cent of GNI
p.c. in developing countries, down from 11.6
per cent in 2008. In the LDCs, mobile-cellular
prices have become much more affordable,
with the 2014 basket corresponding to 14 per
cent of GNI p.c., compared to 29 per cent in
2008. In the developed countries, the basket
represented on average 1.4 per cent of GNI
p.c., compared to 2.4 per cent in 2008.
As with fixed-telephone prices, mobile-cellular
prices adjusted by PPP factors are remarkably
and consistently similar on average across the
developed and developing countries and LDCs.
This suggests that, on average, mobile-cellular
services have the same price when considering
the different purchasing power of currencies
across countries.
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Chart 4.3: Mobile-cellular basket, as a percentage of GNI p.c. (top graph), in USD (middle graph), and
PPP$ (bottom graph), 2008-2014
35
As a % of GNI p.c.
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
35
30
USD
25
20
15
10
5
0
35
30
25
PPS$
20
15
10
5
0
World
Developed
Developing
LDCs
Note: Simple averages. Based on 140 economies for which data on mobile-cellular prices were available for 2008-2014.
Source: ITU.
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Macao, China
Hong Kong, China
Singapore
Denmark
Qatar
Norway
UAE
Luxembourg
Australia
Austria
Finland
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Kuwait
Cyprus
Oman
Iran (I.R.)
Germany
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Costa Rica
Greece
New Zealand
Russian Federation
Italy
Libya
Iceland
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Canada
Brunei Darussalam
Lithuania
Bahrain
China
Mauritius
United States
Poland
Latvia
Japan
Belgium
Kazakhstan
Korea (Rep.)
Portugal
Bahamas
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Mongolia
Ukraine
Slovakia
Andorra
France
Ireland
Belarus
Turkmenistan
Venezuela
Tunisia
Jordan
Trinidad & Tobago
Maldives
Slovenia
Israel
Seychelles
Mexico
Malta
Panama
Spain
Bhutan
Botswana
Estonia
Uruguay
St. Kitts and Nevis
South Africa
Bangladesh
Indonesia
Azerbaijan
Croatia
Thailand
Iraq
Chile
Pakistan
Namibia
Montenegro
Georgia
Jamaica
Barbados
Equatorial Guinea
Egypt
Suriname
India
Antigua & Barbuda
Hungary
Gabon
Brazil
Peru
Ghana
Turkey
Mobile-cellular sub-basket
as % of
USD
PPP$
GNI p.c.
0.10
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.26
0.27
0.31
0.31
0.33
0.33
0.34
0.37
0.38
0.39
0.39
0.41
0.42
0.46
0.47
0.48
0.48
0.49
0.52
0.53
0.54
0.61
0.64
0.65
0.68
0.68
0.71
0.72
0.73
0.75
0.77
0.80
0.83
0.86
0.87
0.88
0.89
0.90
0.90
0.97
0.98
1.00
1.01
1.06
1.08
1.11
1.11
1.12
1.19
1.20
1.20
1.20
1.20
1.22
1.23
1.25
1.25
1.26
1.34
1.35
1.41
1.52
1.52
1.53
1.58
1.58
1.64
1.66
1.68
1.69
1.71
1.73
1.76
1.80
1.81
1.88
1.89
1.92
1.94
1.94
1.97
1.99
2.01
2.09
2.14
2.15
2.24
2.25
2.27
2.36
2.45
2.47
5.36
5.96
8.63
9.88
18.68
23.18
9.89
18.31
17.69
14.01
14.01
0.97
19.50
15.01
8.23
8.74
2.01
18.02
16.45
36.02
3.84
9.29
15.76
6.09
15.92
6.89
24.67
14.13
5.87
29.76
19.40
8.88
12.05
4.07
6.11
35.62
9.11
10.89
33.64
34.14
8.52
19.32
16.01
17.48
41.47
15.80
3.16
3.50
16.05
37.73
40.27
40.33
6.66
6.88
12.56
4.21
4.96
16.04
5.73
24.09
35.34
13.85
11.12
23.51
12.59
37.80
2.95
9.89
23.32
19.99
18.96
10.23
1.42
5.05
10.49
19.32
7.83
10.07
22.98
2.12
9.21
11.61
5.75
8.45
24.98
23.77
5.24
16.33
2.80
23.40
24.75
19.93
22.05
12.30
3.61
22.56
7.25
7.66
9.04
6.58
25.38
14.69
13.59
14.03
12.77
12.16
10.58
2.69
14.51
23.12
8.38
16.70
6.09
16.39
12.68
21.41
5.67
9.69
12.13
13.97
14.35
12.69
19.87
28.86
12.08
25.46
29.60
12.99
20.54
6.65
9.85
35.62
15.14
20.28
31.80
28.66
16.99
22.24
18.33
15.37
34.73
22.67
8.08
12.98
21.50
34.11
31.26
20.43
16.47
9.48
10.33
20.04
7.46
26.96
29.14
20.73
15.80
26.51
21.43
37.62
9.26
18.19
27.78
24.97
23.37
21.49
4.01
13.67
25.01
26.79
19.49
19.61
33.33
7.41
17.94
19.01
12.67
13.10
20.15
33.55
18.18
27.66
9.74
28.47
40.10
27.54
28.95
21.64
11.80
37.16
GNI p.c.,
USD, 2014*
64639
38382
53986
61608
86703
102597
38713
69810
65335
50340
48771
3167
61648
46046
25185
25381
5774
47203
41638
90589
9540
22667
36089
13836
35584
13497
46244
26234
10420
52158
32976
14885
19881
6553
9560
53417
13227
15275
46284
46294
11538
25894
21249
21548
51009
18951
3766
3956
17792
40974
43476
43047
6723
6873
12537
4196
4945
15744
5594
23197
33896
13197
9930
20959
10689
29910
2328
7762
17762
15165
13876
7403
1009
3576
7343
13407
5335
6713
15215
1359
5864
7243
3556
5215
15219
14306
3137
9361
1568
13037
13247
10639
11678
6264
1768
10959
Rank Economy
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
Lebanon
Armenia
Sudan
Nigeria
Algeria
Serbia
Dominica
Dominican Rep.
Romania
Lao P.D.R.
Colombia
Viet Nam
TFYR Macedonia
Paraguay
Tonga
Ecuador
Bosnia and H.
Grenada
Philippines
Kenya
Nepal
Guyana
Timor-Leste
Angola
St. Lucia
Moldova
St. Vincent
Morocco
El Salvador
Kyrgyzstan
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Fiji
Swaziland
Marshall Islands
Samoa
Micronesia
Congo (Rep.)
Zambia
Yemen
Guatemala
Albania
Belize
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Cambodia
Honduras
Vanuatu
Tuvalu
Afghanistan
South Sudan
S. Tome & Principe
Cape Verde
Lesotho
Kiribati
Rwanda
Gambia
Solomon Islands
Cte dIvoire
Haiti
Papua New Guinea
Guinea
Cameroon
Mauritania
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Tajikistan
Comoros
Uganda
Chad
Nicaragua
Benin
Sierra Leone
Mozambique
Mali
Zimbabwe
Guinea-Bissau
Eritrea
Burundi
Togo
Niger
Liberia
Malawi
Madagascar
Central African Rep.
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Somalia**
Myanmar**
Djibouti**
Nauru**
San Marino**
Argentina**
Liechtenstein**
Monaco**
Syria**
Mobile-cellular sub-basket
as % of
USD
PPP$
GNI p.c.
2.54
2.56
2.58
2.73
2.88
2.90
2.90
3.02
3.09
3.11
3.12
3.12
3.13
3.54
3.56
3.58
3.69
3.74
3.76
3.90
4.11
4.21
4.24
4.33
4.38
4.44
4.58
4.73
4.76
4.86
5.38
5.42
5.51
6.12
6.19
6.23
6.46
6.86
7.42
7.58
7.89
8.03
8.34
8.39
8.43
8.62
8.63
8.98
9.41
9.91
9.93
10.32
10.41
10.98
11.46
11.70
12.67
13.18
14.03
14.06
14.48
14.67
15.10
16.00
18.68
18.94
19.26
19.45
19.93
20.23
20.54
20.92
21.86
22.89
26.55
28.05
30.04
31.87
34.72
38.48
39.57
39.99
48.86
50.45
51.64
52.76
20.87
8.10
3.33
6.16
12.78
14.60
16.74
14.50
23.28
3.76
19.71
4.53
12.67
11.81
13.30
17.17
14.67
23.34
10.24
3.77
2.49
13.15
14.04
18.62
25.74
9.13
24.61
11.90
14.73
4.90
11.43
33.22
20.04
15.22
22.22
20.59
17.63
14.80
11.19
8.39
21.93
30.14
31.30
3.28
6.03
6.82
15.66
23.40
45.73
5.69
7.85
12.63
31.38
13.71
24.99
6.14
5.27
17.56
16.93
9.48
24.36
5.62
16.22
14.12
11.66
16.56
15.88
13.60
9.96
17.34
30.60
13.76
12.01
11.63
14.81
20.08
14.75
13.00
7.51
16.98
13.18
13.65
10.98
18.48
13.76
18.89
2.53
4.84
12.46
23.10
28.79
28.96
34.95
59.80
85.62
17.49
7.47
10.81
29.85
26.11
22.33
29.01
40.32
9.70
32.43
11.18
25.00
22.19
15.23
30.09
25.50
30.48
23.47
8.37
8.37
20.23
20.84
21.41
31.83
22.24
32.63
23.93
28.03
14.17
25.46
63.03
30.25
36.73
25.48
23.21
24.96
18.66
41.86
56.01
53.75
9.19
14.14
17.62
30.61
19.75
16.51
20.03
54.55
35.82
15.25
19.10
16.85
35.40
19.06
26.47
12.31
34.34
35.56
25.74
33.73
38.78
22.75
23.55
30.95
78.21
29.06
25.59
22.71
32.61
36.74
29.59
19.39
35.84
28.70
25.17
40.13
58.25
24.50
30.18
16.70
21.27
27.82
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
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GNI p.c.,
USD, 2014*
9860
3796
1548
2707
5325
6044
6923
5764
9041
1449
7582
1738
4865
4006
4486
5754
4775
7483
3267
1159
729
3746
3976
5165
7053
2468
4775
3017
3716
1209
2547
7353
4366
2987
4306
3966
3277
2587
1808
1329
3337
4505
4505
470
859
949
2178
3127
5834
689
949
1469
3616
1499
2617
629
500
1598
1449
809
2018
460
1289
1059
749
1049
989
839
599
1029
1788
789
659
609
669
859
589
490
260
529
400
410
270
440
320
430
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Chart 4.4: Mobile-cellular prices as a percentage of GNI p.c. (top chart), in USD (middle chart) and PPP$
(bottom chart) by region, 2014
60
As a % of GNI p.c.
50
40
30
20
17.91
10
3.82
3.63
0
Africa
Arab States
3.60
CIS
3.90
1.47
Europe
The Americas
80
70
60
PPP$
50
40
30
25.93
20
24.36
19.89
19.47
14.63
10
27.45
0
Africa
Arab States
CIS
Europe
The Americas
90
80
70
USD
60
50
40
30
23.16
20
10
12.74
14.07
12.18
18.80
7.81
0
Africa
Arab States
Country value
CIS
Europe
The Americas
Regional average
Note: Each horizontal dash represents the price in one country in the region. The yellow marks signal the regional average.
Source: ITU.
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Box 4.3: Ghanas steady way to low prices and high mobile penetration
Ghanas mobile-cellular market combines a number of key ingredients that have created a
conducive regulatory environment, increased competition, brought down prices and fostered
high penetration. In 2015, the country ranks 97th globally on the mobile-cellular sub-basket and
8th in Africa. Despite the countrys low GNI p.c. of less than USD 2000, Ghana has managed to
make ICTs, and in particular mobile services, widely available and affordable.
Ghanas mobile-cellular market has witnessed a decade of sustained growth. In 2012, the country
reached 100 per cent penetration and by 2014, penetration stood at 115 per cent, well above the
African average of 73 per cent.
Ghana was an early adopter of deregulation, and competition goes back to the mid-1990s. It
was one of the first countries to offer mobile-cellular services in 1992.19 In 2015, this country
of 27 million people is serviced by no less than six mobile cellular operators, including five
GSM operators: South Africas MTN (Scancom), the United Kingdoms Vodafone, Luxembourgs
Millicom/Tigo, Nigerias Glo and Indias Bharti Airtel. MTN leads with a market share of 46 per
cent, followed by Vodafone (23 per cent), Tigo (14 per cent), Airtel (12 per cent) and Glo (5
per cent). Sudatel-owned Expresso, providing CDMA services, holds 0.4 per cent of the mobile
voice market.20 Operators offer a number of low-user adjusted pricing plans and special offers in
particular to attract Ghanas low-income user base.
Another driving force for competition was the introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in
2011. MNP allows subscribers to switch between operators while keeping their existing number.
In February 2015, the independent regulator (NCA) announced that the milestone of 2 million
successful porting requests processed for Ghana consumers had been reached. The same
announcement highlighted the fact that 95 per cent of all porting requests were completed in
five minutes or less, and no customer was charged to port their number.21
The NCA has effectively managed interconnection between operators, spectrum allocation
and access to the international gateway.22 The Government has identified national ICT policies
setting out means for regulating telecommunication prices, and set a number of targets for
universal service and access and for quality of service, with provisions to monitor progress
towards the achievement of these targets.23 A 2014 review of 23 universal service funds (USFs)
in Africa commends Ghana for its transparency and use of best practice in the development and
administration of its fund (GSMA, 2014b).
Source: ITU.
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4.3
Fixed-broadband prices
Average
Standard deviation
Minimum
Maximum
Median
1.3
3.6
7.4
9.2
16.0
178.3
0.7
2.9
11.8
17.5
39.1
398.3
0.5
0.7
0.4
0.3
0.3
1.4
3.5
10.7
63.5
71.3
221.7
2194.2*
1.1
3.2
4.5
2.8
4.4
39.2
Note: Based on 165 economies for which 2013 data on fixed-broadband prices were available. *The high maximum value for Africa is due to a few
outliers, in particular the very high price for fixed broadband in the Central African Republic.
Source: ITU.
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Chart 4.5: Fixed-broadband basket: as a percentage of GNI p.c. (top graph), in USD (middle graph) and
PPP$ (bottom graph), 2008-2014
412.2
254.0
150
As a % of GNI p.c.
130
110
97.7
90
70
50
29.4
20.8
30
10
1.4
2008
2009
188.4
122.6
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
100
90
80
70
USD
60
56.9
50
40
32.5
30.4
25.8
30
20
10
0
2008
415.8
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
291.9
250
PPP$
200
150
129.5
100
63.6
52.3
50
26.8
0
2008
2009
World
2010
Developed
2011
2012
Developing
2013
2014
LDCs
Note: Simple averages. Based on 144 economies for which 2008-2014 data on fixed-broadband prices are available. Excludes Cuba.
Source: ITU.
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108
The countries ranked at the top of the fixedbroadband basket those in which the service is
cheapest in terms of GNI p.c. are all high-income
economies. The list is topped by Kuwait, Macao
(China), the United States, the United Kingdom,
Switzerland and Japan. The top ten economies all
have GNI p.c. levels of above USD 40000. With the
exception of three countries the Islamic Republic
of Iran, Ukraine and Romania (see Box 4.4) the
economies ranked within the top 50 have GNI
p.c. levels of above USD 10000. The Russian
Federation also stands out for having entrylevel
fixed-broadband services that are relatively
affordable compared to the countrys income level.
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Kuwait
Macao, China
United States
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Japan
Austria
Andorra
Norway
Luxembourg
Ireland
Hong Kong, China
Russian Federation
Singapore
France
Iceland
Sweden
Belgium
Finland
Iran (I.R.)
Qatar
Denmark
Trinidad & Tobago
Italy
Canada
Cyprus
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Uruguay
Kazakhstan
Poland
Bahrain
Latvia
Turkey
Ukraine
Romania
Germany
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Australia
Oman
Greece
Lithuania
Spain
Brazil
Slovenia
Korea (Rep.)
Slovakia
Estonia
Seychelles
Belarus
Portugal
Sri Lanka
Venezuela
Tunisia
Bahamas
UAE
Albania
Malta
New Zealand
Panama
Costa Rica
Bulgaria
Brunei Darussalam
Bosnia and H.
Viet Nam
Croatia
Azerbaijan
Libya
Lebanon
Chile
Hungary
Mongolia
South Africa
Mauritius
Colombia
Maldives
Malaysia
Indonesia
Montenegro
St. Kitts and Nevis
Mexico
TFYR Macedonia
Armenia
Barbados
Gabon
Serbia
Sudan
Cape Verde
China
Thailand
Peru
Egypt
Ecuador
Turkmenistan
Fixed-broadband sub-basket
as % of
in
USD
PPP$ Speed
GNI p.c.
Mbit/s
0.29
0.32
0.37
0.47
0.49
0.53
0.61
0.61
0.61
0.66
0.67
0.68
0.68
0.70
0.77
0.84
0.85
0.88
0.88
0.88
0.89
0.90
0.94
0.98
1.00
1.01
1.01
1.06
1.08
1.12
1.12
1.12
1.14
1.15
1.15
1.15
1.18
1.21
1.21
1.21
1.23
1.23
1.24
1.28
1.30
1.30
1.32
1.34
1.43
1.44
1.57
1.61
1.63
1.65
1.67
1.67
1.68
1.77
1.79
1.79
1.80
1.82
1.86
1.87
1.99
2.00
2.02
2.08
2.10
2.13
2.21
2.22
2.28
2.46
2.87
2.93
2.94
3.10
3.11
3.13
3.17
3.17
3.18
3.19
3.35
3.42
3.48
3.51
3.55
3.58
3.63
4.02
4.05
4.20
4.30
11.25
17.28
16.32
16.45
37.11
20.59
25.41
20.80
52.21
38.48
23.88
21.67
7.82
31.49
27.86
32.46
43.58
33.83
35.69
4.24
64.01
46.15
12.33
29.06
43.35
21.28
43.12
16.81
13.64
10.77
12.36
18.62
14.46
10.46
3.79
8.66
46.37
34.10
26.40
65.80
26.01
23.30
15.34
31.95
12.66
25.21
28.49
19.90
21.23
15.79
8.79
28.51
4.29
17.19
5.83
29.99
54.19
6.64
31.18
53.92
16.04
14.49
11.40
51.30
7.94
2.89
22.57
12.75
23.58
17.51
28.04
24.51
7.15
15.20
22.83
18.48
13.71
26.89
9.27
18.88
36.67
26.26
12.90
10.10
42.50
30.34
17.52
4.53
10.71
19.53
16.13
20.99
10.60
20.16
24.65
17.33
23.37
16.32
12.68
22.06
19.46
22.06
33.10
29.48
18.51
27.85
17.94
32.97
23.60
26.15
32.42
28.41
26.96
12.84
86.99
30.75
15.41
26.20
37.09
21.67
36.10
24.12
17.03
21.49
20.54
31.74
26.93
17.23
14.04
14.99
42.18
28.11
53.93
47.48
49.69
24.30
22.46
31.79
16.62
28.21
32.80
26.66
25.28
23.62
26.96
32.63
11.95
22.53
13.15
26.37
74.50
12.34
35.16
41.49
27.30
21.37
21.62
78.28
13.80
7.15
31.29
30.39
43.40
40.67
39.69
18.26
31.94
36.82
30.41
17.84
55.36
25.09
30.92
45.20
37.30
25.45
21.81
34.28
41.92
31.34
10.15
18.62
31.92
40.14
36.91
36.74
35.33
1
4
2
17
5
12
8
0.5
6
8
100
200
15
100
12
10
30
10
0.26
1
25
0.25
7
5
2
10
2
1
0.5
2
5
1
5
100
16
5
2
8
2
4
100
1
1
1
50
2
5
1.02
2
12
2
1
2
1
0.51
1
30
1
1
15
1
2
2.5
4
1
0.51
2
4
10
1
2
0.51
1
2
1
0.5
1
2
5
4
1
6
0.51
5
0.51
2
1
6
1
8
3
2
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
900
Unlimited
2
Unlimited
2
30
Unlimited
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
5
Unlimited
100
Unlimited
2
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
40
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
5
10
Unlimited
25
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
5
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
300
Unlimited
1.5
Unlimited
Unlimited
2.5
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
80
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
2
1.00
15
Unlimited
20
40
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
5
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
2
3.40
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
5
Unlimited
1
46046
64639
53417
41638
90589
46284
50340
40974
102597
69810
43047
38382
13836
53986
43476
46244
61648
46294
48771
5774
86703
61608
15744
35584
52158
25185
51009
18951
15165
11538
13227
19881
15275
10959
3956
9041
47203
33896
26234
65335
25381
22667
14885
29910
11678
23197
25894
17792
17762
13197
6723
21249
3167
12537
4196
21548
38713
4505
20959
36089
10689
9540
7353
32976
4775
1738
13407
7343
13497
9860
15215
13247
3766
7403
9560
7582
5594
10420
3576
7243
13876
9930
4865
3796
15219
10639
6044
1548
3616
6553
5335
6264
3137
5754
6873
Rank Economy
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
Dominican Rep.
Algeria
Pakistan
Bhutan
Morocco
Grenada
Uzbekistan
Suriname
Georgia
Botswana
Antigua & Barbuda
Fiji
India
Bangladesh
Moldova
Jamaica
El Salvador
Paraguay
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Dominica
Bolivia
Guatemala
Lesotho
Jordan
Guyana
Philippines
Namibia
Yemen
South Sudan
Tonga
Tuvalu
Equatorial Guinea
Kyrgyzstan
Nepal
Angola
Lao P.D.R.
Micronesia
Honduras
Cambodia
Samoa
Belize
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Timor-Leste
Ghana
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Swaziland
Vanuatu
Tanzania
S. Tome & Principe
Papua New Guinea
Cte dIvoire
Ethiopia
Iraq
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Cuba
Cameroon
Afghanistan
Mozambique
Senegal
Zambia
Congo (Rep.)
Haiti
Burkina Faso
Comoros
Benin
Sierra Leone
Mali
Gambia
Togo
Kiribati
Malawi
Guinea-Bissau
Madagascar
Niger
Eritrea
Solomon Islands
Burundi
Uganda
Chad
Rwanda
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Central
181 Rep. African
Myanmar**
San Marino**
Liechtenstein**
Djibouti**
Argentina**
Monaco**
Nauru**
Somalia**
Syria**
Fixed-broadband sub-basket
as % of
in
USD
PPP$ Speed
GNI p.c.
Mbit/s
4.32
4.35
4.36
4.43
4.68
4.71
4.73
4.77
4.78
5.00
5.06
5.10
5.28
5.28
5.54
5.68
5.83
6.12
6.16
6.26
6.57
6.75
6.93
7.31
7.35
7.76
8.27
9.41
9.46
9.69
9.83
9.92
10.18
10.66
11.09
11.57
11.84
12.09
12.12
12.64
12.85
13.32
13.92
14.25
14.79
15.68
16.10
17.02
23.21
23.52
25.28
27.10
30.92
31.07
32.74
34.49
34.92
35.32
35.94
37.67
38.01
40.82
41.65
43.14
45.36
63.50
71.27
71.34
76.88
78.45
85.58
86.35
102.20
103.32
111.22
119.42
168.45
180.70
214.13
221.74
238.96
600.60
698.62
830.94
1111.08
20.74
41.50
19.31
45.11
4.94
17.22
8.59
26.95
11.78
23.70
29.39
38.38
7.40
37.23
63.07
14.16
31.20
32.32
59.45
54.94
66.85
18.54
28.00
6.90
24.04
4.44
12.59
11.40
27.76
24.68
38.29
18.07
34.39
20.44
38.42
36.20
44.77
33.65
44.61
37.91
50.57
14.33
31.91
19.27
36.79
9.12
23.83
30.28
63.10
24.21
37.26
22.50
51.59
45.98
89.53
10.47
23.28
7.66
36.74
42.07
48.23
121.36 171.29
10.74
31.07
6.74
22.61
49.81
57.24
14.29
36.85
33.00
22.00
43.01
10.00
25.83
42.46
52.55
50.00
85.88
49.95
12.57
31.66
49.00
72.75
23.11
75.51
23.99
61.31
38.40
67.39
57.77 139.38
61.29
51.74
18.10
42.41
33.17
52.60
52.00
56.51
37.50
78.41
12.81
35.88
192.97 375.98
25.00
45.74
34.11
75.81
180.00
40.45
85.67
21.84
63.30
20.73
40.50
36.41
74.17
65.01 145.03
97.81 153.43
42.82
86.07
44.50
98.22
49.89
83.44
50.56 106.80
43.10
91.82
47.73 105.12
35.94 130.21
45.09
95.20
225.35
25.00
91.35
58.66 117.64
61.70 194.49
60.17 131.07
87.35
295.35 283.42
51.72 133.45
300.00 709.41
599.05 1068.99
435.81 1083.17
397.74 635.57
74.22
21.34
27.29
53.96
1.00
0.51
1.00
2.00
4.00
2.00
0.25
6.14
10.00
0.51
1.00
10.00
2.00
0.25
30.00
1.00
1.00
0.75
2.00
1.00
2.00
0.30
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.25
3.00
0.26
0.26
0.51
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
4
Unlimited
Unlimited
1.17
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
5
1.5
2
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
9
2
5
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
7
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
6
20
Unlimited
5
6
Unlimited
Unlimited
12
1
Unlimited
2
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
12
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
2
5764
5325
1359
2328
3017
7483
1878
9361
3556
7762
13037
4366
1568
1009
2468
5215
3716
4006
7053
6454
6923
2547
3337
1499
4945
3746
3267
5864
1329
949
4486
5834
14306
1209
729
5165
1449
3277
2178
949
3966
4505
4306
1059
3976
1768
1788
2707
2987
3127
859
1469
2018
1449
470
6713
859
1159
6010
1289
689
609
1049
1808
2587
809
749
839
789
659
669
500
529
2617
270
589
440
400
490
1598
260
599
1029
629
430
0.26 Unlimited
320
0.26
0.50
0.50
0.26
0.50
0.25
0.50
2.00
2.00
0.26
0.25
0.26
2.00
4.00
0.50
1.00
0.26
0.25
0.51
1.00
4.00
0.26
0.51
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.25
0.26
0.25
0.51
1.00
0.26
0.26
0.25
0.26
0.51
0.51
1.00
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.25
0.26
0.26
8.00
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.51
0.51
0.50 Unlimited
20.00 Unlimited
3.00 Unlimited
0.26
5
3.00 Unlimited
60.00 Unlimited
0.50
10
0.26
15
0.26 Unlimited
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
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Box 4.4: Romanias Neighbourhood Networks increase competition and bring down prices
Romania ranks 36th on the fixed-broadband price basket and stands out since it ranks higher
than some European countries (Germany, Greece and Spain) and non-European countries (Saudi
Arabia, Australia and the Republic of Korea) with much higher GNI p.c. levels. The entry-level
fixed-broadband plan, which costs less than USD 9 (corresponding to a relatively low 1.1 per cent
of GNI p.c.), is not only affordable but also offers unlimited data at very high speeds (100 Mbit/s).
The EUs Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2014 has highlighted Romania as one of the European
leaders (together with Sweden, Latvia and Finland ) in terms of offering the highest proportion of
ultrafast broadband access (at 100 Mbit/s and above) (EU, 2014).
A key factor in the success of Romanias affordable and fast Internet access has been the countrys
Neighborhood Networks, a unique networking scheme that has been developed to overcome
limited broadband connectivity. Until Romtelecom, Romanias incumbent telecommunication
provider, launched DSL services relatively late (in 2005), small, low-cost local area networks
(LANs) run by small Internet service providers (ISPs) emerged to satisfy user demand and to
connect homes within a neighbourhood. Networks are often deployed using aerial fibre resulting
in very high connection speeds. As more people joined these networks, they expanded to cover
most urban spaces, and the large number of LANs has increased competition and brought
down prices. Consequently, and unlike many countries where the incumbent provider has wide
command over the market, broadband service providers in Romania remain diverse, with intraand inter-modal competition (Broadband Commission, 2012b). Also, by contrast with most
European countries, where the fixed-broadband market is dominated by DSL, most subscriptions
in Romania are based on FTTH/B technology.
While broadband services in Romania are fast and cheap, the country has a mediocre fixedbroadband penetration rate (18.5 per cent in 2014, compared to the European average of 29
per cent). One important challenge that remains for Romania with regard to fixed broadband
connectivity concerns the rural areas. Neighbourhood Networks are concentrated in urban
areas, and many rural areas have little or no broadband coverage. The fixed telephone network
is also concentrated in urban areas, which hampers the deployment of rural DSL services.
Finally, very low population density and lower income levels in rural areas have made it more
difficult to attract investors. In response, Romania, in cooperation with the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF) has initiated the Ro-NET Project, which is expected to cover 783 out of
2268 Romanian localities that lack fixed-broadband connectivity. The project is expected to help
reduce Romanias digital urban/rural divide and to bring the Internet closer to around 130000
households with 400000 inhabitants, 500 businesses and 2800 public institutions.27
Source: ITU.
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Chart 4.6: Most common entry-level fixed-broadband speed, globally and by level of development,
20082014
5
4.5
4
Developed
Developing
World
LDCs
Mbit/s
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Note: Based on 144 economies for which 20082014 data on fixed-broadband prices were available.
Source: ITU.
None of the European countries offer fixedbroadband services at the minimum threshold of
256 kbit/s (Chart 4.8). Only Poland offers a 512
kbit/s plan, and 1 Mbit/s plans are on offer in
Turkey, Spain, Slovenia, Montenegro and Albania.
All other countries offer plans of at least 2 Mbit/s
and half of the European countries included in the
data collection offer speeds of 7 Mbit/s or higher.
Very high speeds of 100 Mbit/s are advertised
in Romania, Lithuania and Ireland. The most
common entry-level fixed-broadband speed in the
region is 5 Mbit/s.
Although Europe has one of the most developed
telecommunication markets, with high access
and usage levels and relatively low ICT prices,
the region does not have a particularly high
percentage of countries with unlimited basic fixedbroadband plans compared to the global average.
In Europe, two-thirds (66 per cent) of countries
have entry-level fixed-broadband plans that are
unlimited, compared to over 70 per cent globally.
At the same time, only three countries (Turkey,
Albania and Montenegro) offer the minimum cap
of 1 Gigabit (GB).
The CIS stands out for having the cheapest fixedbroadband services in terms of USD and PPP$.
There are relatively small price variations within
the region, and fixed-broadband services are
relatively affordable in most countries. The regions
2014 fixed-broadband basket average stands at
3.6 per cent of GNI p.c., more than twice as high
as Europes but much lower than any of the other
111
Box 4.5: 111 countries meet the Broadband Commissions target for broadband price
affordability
In 2010, the Broadband Commission for Digital Development,28 the ITU/UNESCO-led initiative to
increase awareness about the importance of broadband for achieving international development
goals, including the MDGs, identified four specific ICT targets. Target 2 is about making
broadband affordable: By 2015, entry-level broadband services should be made affordable (less
than 5 per cent of average monthly income) in developing countries through adequate regulation
and market forces.
By early 2015, a total of 111 countries, including all of the worlds developed countries and 67
developing countries, had achieved that target (Chart Box 4.5, left). This result, which is based on
comparable fixed- and mobile-broadband prices for 160 economies worldwide, further highlights
the fact that mobile-broadband services tend to be cheaper. While 102 countries had achieved
the Commissions target in terms of fixed-broadband prices, 105 countries had achieved it in
terms of mobile-broadband prices. While currently only a limited number of countries have
achieved the broadband target thanks lower mobile-broadband prices, this is liable to change in
the near future. With mobile-broadband service prices continuing to fall, while in many countries
fixed-broadband service prices are seeing little change,29 mobile broadband is expected to help
more countries achieve the target.
The available data also show that the global average price of a basic fixed-broadband plan (52.3
PPP$) is 1.7 times higher than the average price of a comparable mobile-broadband plan (30
PPP$). In developing countries, the average monthly fixed-broadband price (74.5 PPP$) is three
times higher than in developed countries (PPP$ 22.5) (Chart Box 4.5, right).
Chart Box 4.5: Number of countries in 2014 that had achieved the Broadband Commission
target to make broadband affordable (left), and fixed- and mobile-broadband prices compared,
PPP$, 2014 (right)
Number of countries
43
1
35
0-2
32
2-5
12
11
11
10
5
5-8 8-10 10-20 20-30 >30
Postpaid
xed-broadband
(1GB)
22.5
74.5
0
20
40
60 80
2014 broadband prices in PPP$*
52.3
Developed
Developing
Note: + Either fixed broadband or mobile broadband. *Based on simple averages including data for 160 countries.
Source: ITU.
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Chart 4.7: Fixed-broadband prices by region, 2014, in USD, (left) and in PPP$ (right)
USD
600
PPP$
1200
500
1000
400
800
300
600
200
400
100
0
91.2
37.4
Africa Arab
States
38.5
Asia &
Pacic
11.1
CIS
25.8
31.4
Europe Americas
Country value
200
0
187.5
62.1
43.1
24.7
CIS
26.1
39.5
Europe Americas
Note: Each horizontal dash represents the price in one country in the region. The yellow marks signal the regional average.
Source: ITU.
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
15 GB cap
2.5
Unlimited
2 GB cap
30 GB cap
Unlimited
5 GB cap
Unlimited
100 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
5 GB cap
Unlimited
300 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
2 GB cap
3.0
256 kbit/s
>256 kbits -1 Mbit/s
>1-5 Mbit/s
>5-50 Mbit/s
>50 Mbit/s
N/A
2 GB cap
As a % of GNI p.c.
3.5
10 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
4.0
Unlimited
1 GB cap
30 GB cap
Unlimited
Chart 4.8: Fixed-broadband prices as a percentage of GNI p.c., broadband speeds and caps in Europe,
2014
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Austria
Andorra
Norway
Luxembourg
Ireland
France
Iceland
Sweden
Belgium
Finland
Denmark
Italy
Cyprus
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Poland
Latvia
Turkey
Romania
Germany
Israel
Greece
Lithuania
Spain
Slovenia
Slovakia
Estonia
Portugal
Albania
Malta
Bulgaria
Bosnia and H
Croatia
Hungary
Montenegro
TFYR Macedonia
Serbia
0.0
Note: Broadband speeds and caps/month refer to the advertised speeds and the amount of data included in the entry-level fixed-broadband subscription.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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Unlimited
Chart 4.9: Fixed-broadband prices as a percentage of GNI p.c., broadband speeds and caps in the CIS
countries, 2014
Kyrgyzstan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Georgia
Moldova
1.2 GB cap
Unlimited
Azerbaijan
Uzbekistan
Unlimited
Belarus
Turkmenistan
Unlimited
Ukraine
10 GB cap
Kazakhstan
100 GB cap
Unlimited
Armenia
10
Russian Federation
As a % of GNI p.c.
256 kbit/s
>256 kbits -1 Mbit/s
>1-5 Mbit/s
>5-50 Mbit/s
>50 Mbit/s
N/A
1 GB cap
12
Note: Broadband speeds and caps/month refer to the advertised speeds and the amount of data included in the entry-level fixed-broadband subscription.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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Chart 4.10: Fixed-broadband prices as a percentage of GNI p.c., broadband speeds and caps, in the
Americas, 2014
36 63
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
5 GB cap
40 GB cap
256 kbit/s
>256 kbits -1 Mbit/s
>1-5 Mbit/s
>5-50 Mbit/s
>50 Mbit/s
N/A
Unlimited
Unlimited
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
United States
Trinidad & Tobago
Canada
Uruguay
Brazil
Venezuela
Bahamas
Panama
Costa Rica
Chile
Colombia
St. Kitts and Nevis
Mexico
Barbados
Peru
Ecuador
Dominican Rep.
Grenada
Suriname
Antigua & Barbuda
Jamaica
El Salvador
Paraguay
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the
Dominica
Bolivia
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Belize
Nicaragua
Cuba
Haiti
As a % of GNI p.c.
Note: Broadband speeds and caps/month refer to the advertised speeds and the amount of data included in the entry-level fixed-broadband subscription.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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Unlimited
71
Comoros
Iraq
Unlimited
Unlimited
Morocco
9 GB cap
Unlimited
40 GB cap
Lebanon
Algeria
20 GB cap
Libya
5 GB cap
Unlimited
United Arab Emirates
Egypt
Unlimited
Tunisia
2 GB cap
Unlimited
Oman
Sudan
Unlimited
Saudi Arabia
25 GBcap
Bahrain
5
0
Unlimited
10
Qatar
15
Unlimited
20
Yemen
25
10 GB cap
30
Kuwait
As a % of GNI p.c.
35
Jordan
256 kbit/s
>256 kbits -1 Mbit/s
>1-5 Mbit/s
>5-50 Mbit/s
>50 Mbit/s
N/A
Mauritania
40
Unlimited
Chart 4.11: Fixed-broadband prices as a percentage of GNI p.c., broadband speeds and caps, in the Arab
States, 2014
Note: Broadband speeds and caps/month refer to the advertised speeds and the amount of data included in the entry-level fixed-broadband subscription.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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Africa has few countries with affordable entrylevel fixed-broadband plans and many where the
service remains beyond the reach of most people.
Six African countries Seychelles, South Africa,
Mauritius, Gabon, Cabo Verde and Botswana
offer basic fixed-broadband plans at prices
corresponding to 5 per cent or less of average
GNI p.c. In most countries, the price of the service
represents more than ten per cent of GNI p.c. In
almost half of the African LDCs,31 including Uganda,
Rwanda and the Central African Republic, the price
actually exceeds average GNI p.c. levels. Very high
Chapter 4
Chart 4.12: Fixed-broadband prices as a percentage of GNI p.c., broadband speeds and caps, in Asia and
the Pacific, 2014
As a % of GNI p.c.
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
38
103
222
Macao, China
Japan
Hong Kong, China
Singapore
Iran (I.R.)
Australia
Korea (Rep.)
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
Brunei Darussalam
Viet Nam
Mongolia
Maldives
Malaysia
Indonesia
China
Thailand
Pakistan
Bhutan
Fiji
India
Bangladesh
Philippines
Tonga
Tuvalu
Nepal
Lao P.D.R.
Micronesia
Cambodia
Samoa
Marshall Islands
Timor-Leste
Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea
Afghanistan
Kiribati
Solomon Islands
256 kbit/s
>256 kbits -1 Mbit/s
>1-5 Mbit/s
>5-50 Mbit/s
>50 Mbit/s
N/A
Unlimited
900 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
2 GB cap
50 GB cap
Unlimited
2.5 GB cap
80 GB cap
Unlimited
1 GB cap
Unlimited
5 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10 GB cap
4 GB cap
5 GB cap
1.5 GB cap
2 GB cap
Unlimited
5 GB cap
Unlimited
7 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 GB cap
Unlimited
6 GB cap
18
31
Unlimited
1 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 GB cap
24
20
Note: Broadband speeds and caps/month refer to the advertised speeds and the amount of data included in the entry-level fixed-broadband subscription.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
2 GB cap
Unlimited
Mali
Gambia
Togo
Malawi
Guinea-Bissau
Madagascar
Niger
Eritrea
Burundi
Uganda
Chad
Rwanda
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Central African Rep.
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
2 GB cap
10 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
256 kbit/s
>256 kbits -1 Mbit/s
>1-5 Mbit/s
>5-50 Mbit/s
>50 Mbit/s
N/A
1.5GB cap
2 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
3.4 GB cap
Unlimited
1 GB cap
Unlimited
2 GB cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
20 GB cap
5 GB cap
6 GB cap
Unlimited
12 GB cap
Unlimited
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Seychelles
South Africa
Mauritius
Gabon
Cape Verde
Botswana
Lesotho
Namibia
South Sudan
Equatorial Guinea
Angola
Ghana
Nigeria
Swaziland
Tanzania
S. Tome & Principe
Cte d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Cameroon
Mozambique
Senegal
Zambia
Congo (Rep.)
Burkina Faso
Benin
Sierra Leone
As a % of GNI p.c.
Chart 4.13: Fixed-broadband prices as a percentage of GNI p.c., broadband speeds and caps, in Africa,
2014
Note: Broadband speeds and caps/month refer to the advertised speeds and the amount of data included in the entry-level fixed-broadband subscription.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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Mobile-broadband prices
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Chart 4.14: Availability of mobile-broadband services by type of service, by level of development, 2014 and
2012
180
Number of countries
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2014
2012
2014
Postpaid
handset-based
(500MB)
2012
2014
Prepaid
handset-based
(500MB)
Developed
2012
2014
Postpaid
computer-based
(1GB)
Developing
2012
Prepaid
computer-based
(1GB)
LDCs
Note: A mobile-broadband service is counted as having been available if it was advertised on the website of the dominant operator or prices were
provided to ITU through the ICT Price Basket Questionnaire.37
Source: ITU.
Pay as you go
Postpaid
Mobile
broadband
Bundle
Prepaid
Add-on package
Postpaid
Pay as you go
Computer-based
Source: ITU.
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Chart 4.15: Variation in the USD price per MB, by type of mobile-broadband service, 2012-2014
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
<2
2-10
<2
2-10
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
<2
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
% countries
% countries
% countries
% countries
2-10
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
<2
2-10
Note: Percentages are calculated on the basis of the total number of countries with price data for at least two years in the period 2012-2014: 145
economies for postpaid handset-based, 500MB; 152 economies for prepaid handset-based, 500MB; 147 economies for postpaid computer-based,
1GB; and 137 economies for prepaid computer-based, 1 GB.
Source: ITU.
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basket and the 500MB handset-based mobilebroadband basket, considering what each
basket includes and how this enables different
ICT applications (Box 4.6). Based on the ITU
baskets, computer-based mobile-broadband
plans remain significantly less affordable than
handset-based plans in developing countries,
highlighting the ongoing challenge to offer
larger data allowances at affordable prices in
the developing world.
Developed countries saw an average decrease
in mobile-broadband prices similar to that in
developing countries, in the 15 to 25 per cent
range for prices in USD. This decrease has led
mobile broadband to become (on average)
the cheapest among the four ITU price
baskets in the developed world. Moreover,
the comparison with fixed-telephony, mobilecellular and fixed-broadband prices (see
sections 4.2 and 4.3) shows that mobile
broadband is the only service for which
average prices in USD in developed countries
are similar to or even lower than in developing
countries, and the trend suggests that they
are still falling. This explains why mobile
broadband has become so affordable in
the developed world, with average prices
corresponding to less than 1 per cent of
GNI p.c for all services except prepaid
computer-based, which is probably the less
common type of mobile-broadband service in
developed countries.
Chart 4.17 presents an aggregated comparison of
2013 and 2014 prices, in local currency, so that the
effects of exchange rate fluctuations or changes
in the GNI p.c. are screened from the analysis of
pricing trends.
The results of this analysis provide additional
insights that are not captured in the averages.
For about half of the countries surveyed,
mobile-broadband prices in local currency did
not change between 2013 and 2014.
In those countries where prices changed,
mobile-broadband prices decreased in most
cases (about 30 per cent of countries),
although they also increased in a few countries
(around 15 per cent of countries).
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Chart 4.16: Mobile-broadband prices, in USD (top), PPP$ (center) and as a percentage of GNI p.c. (bottom),
world and by level of development, 2013-2014
Postpaid 2013
computer-based
(1GB)
2014
20.4
20.2
18.2
17.2
14.8
28.9
21.9
16.8
Prepaid 2013
computer-based
(1GB)
2014
36.9
26.9
26.0
26.7
19.2
20.4
20.0
20.3
Prepaid 2013
handset-based
(500MB) 2014
22.1
17.7
19.5
18.3
13.1
13.7
14.2
Postpaid 2013
handset-based
(500MB)
2014
15.5
23.0
17.6
18.9
18.0
14.2
14.5
15.8
14.9
10
20
30
40
USD
Postpaid 2013
computer-based
(1GB)
2014
50.8
37.3
17.3
31.5
37.9
32.7
15.9
27.8
Prepaid 2013
computer-based
(1GB)
2014
29.3
15.4
Postpaid 2013
handset-based
(500MB) 2014
31.8
27.2
25.0
24.5
21.9
29.1
19.0
16.4
10
39.2
30.3
19.8
63.5
45.0
34.8
35.8
22.1
Prepaid 2013
handset-based
(500MB) 2014
40.5
36.7
26.2
23.0
26.6
25.7
20
30
40
50
60
70
PPP$
Postpaid 2013
computer-based
(1GB)
2014
8.9
0.9
2013
Prepaid
computer-based
(1GB)
2014
23.6
9.1
6.7
15.2
6.5
LDCs
Developing
Developed
World
4.8
22.4
8.8
0.9
0.8
21.5
9.5
7.1
1.1
Postpaid 2013
handset-based
(500MB) 2014
37.6
14.0
10.4
1.4
0.8
23.4
9.8
7.2
1.9
2013
Prepaid
handset-based
(500MB) 2014
31.6
12.2
1.0
6.5
16.3
6.9
5.1
10
20
% GNI p.c.
30
40
Note: Simple averages. Based on 119 economies for which 2013 and 2014 data on mobile-broadband prices were available for the four types of data
plan. The respective averages include: 22 LDCs, 84 developing countries and 35 developed countries.
Source: ITU.
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Box 4.6:
All these factors need to be taken into consideration in the cost-benefit analysis and when
assessing the potential impact of mobile broadband on social and economic development.
Figure Box 4.3: Mobile-broadband data usage examples, 500 MB and 1 GB per month
275 webpages
400 e-mails
200 Facebook visits
or
Internet video (std-quality): 140 mins
Radio Streaming (std-quality):190 mins
500 MB
per month
1 GB
per month
Source: ITU.
These findings hold true for all types of mobilebroadband plan and provide a more nuanced
overview of the mobile-broadband price trends. A
more detailed analysis requires the examination of
country data, and is presented in the next section
on the basis of the 2014 mobile-broadband prices.
For instance, postpaid handset-based mobilebroadband plans with 500MB per month cost
less than USD 30 in Cyprus, Denmark and Israel
(Table 4.7), highlighting the fact that the prices
offered for postpaid plans in these countries are
far more competitive. In the United States, prepaid
and postpaid mobile-broadband plans include
unlimited voice and text and are offered on LTE
networks, thus allowing for higher speeds. These
differences are often linked to the different trends
in mobile-cellular markets: in most developed
countries, mobile plans are predominantly
postpaid and data services are contracted as
part of large bundles, whereas in the majority of
developing countries prepaid is by far the most
common mode of contracting mobile services and
all-inclusive bundles are the exception.
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Chart 4.17: Percentage change in mobile-broadband prices in local currency, percentage of countries,
2013-2014
Price50%
Price30-50%
Price10-30%
10
0
5
56% of countries
no change in price
Price10-0%
15
Price 30-10%
10
Price50%
58% of countries
no change in price
Price 0-10%
Price50%
Price30-50%
Price10-30%
15
% countries
Price10-0%
Price 30-10%
Price50-30%
15
55% of countries
no change in price
10
Price10-0%
10
15
Price 0-10%
Price50%
% countries
10
Price50%
Price30-50%
Price50-30%
Price10-0%
Price 30-10%
Price50-30%
Price50%
10
54% of countries
no change in price
Price 30-10%
Price10-30%
10
Price50-30%
15
15
Price50%
Price 0-10%
Price50%
% countries
% countries
10
Price30-50%
15
Price10-30%
Price 0-10%
Note: Percentages are calculated on the basis of the total number of countries with price data for 2013 and 2014: 145 economies for postpaid handset-based, 500MB; 153 economies for prepaid handset-based, 500MB; 149 economies for postpaid computer-based, 1GB; and 139 economies for
prepaid computer-based, 1GB.
Source: ITU.
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Table
4.5: Top
Top
three
countries
with
cheapest
mobile-broadband
services
in region,
each region,
PPP$, 2014
Table 4.5:
three
countries
with
thethe
cheapest
mobile-broadband
services
in each
PPP$, 2014
Prepaid handset-based 500MB
Europe
PPP$
CIS
Estonia
3.16
PPP$
Africa
PPP$
Cambodia
5.17
Uruguay
10.75
Sudan
7.81
Moldova
6.94
Mozambique
6.23
Lithuania 3.94
Pakistan
5.17
Paraguay
11.79
Tunisia
13.28
Belarus
9.90
Guinea
7.81
Iceland
Bhutan
5.35
Costa Rica
12.03
Bahrain
13.60
Kazakhstan 11.02
4.76
Cape Verde
10.46
PPP$
CIS
PPP$
Africa
Finland
2.91
Sri Lanka
4.16
Bahamas
13.19
Sudan
3.55
Moldova
6.94
Guinea
PPP$
7.81
Iceland
4.76
Cambodia
5.17
Uruguay
13.38
Tunisia
7.97
Belarus
9.90
Mozambique
9.28
Austria
5.76
Australia
6.50
Barbados
14.52
Bahrain
13.60
Armenia
10.39
Tanzania
9.89
Europe
PPP$
The Americas
PPP$
Arab States
PPP$
CIS
Africa
PPP$
Poland
5.27
Cambodia
6.46
Barbados
15.73
Morocco
11.97
Moldova
Austria
5.76
Sri Lanka
7.16
Uruguay
16.12
Egypt
12.25
Kazakhstan
12.34
United States
21.77
Sudan
13.20
Belarus
13.68 Burundi
16.68
Lithuania 6.19
Bhutan
10.18
Europe
PPP$
Austria
5.76
8.68 Mozambique
9.97
Arab States
PPP$
CIS
PPP$
Africa
PPP$
Cambodia
6.44
Uruguay
11.71
Egypt
14.08
Kazakhstan 11.02
Mauritius
10.53
Lithuania 6.76
Sri Lanka
8.38
Barbados
14.52
Tunisia
19.92
Belarus
13.68
Tanzania
12.72
Romania
Indonesia
12.54
United States
16.32
Libya
21.70
Moldova
17.35
Mozambique
13.02
7.75
Source: ITU.
Source: ITU.
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the price
andReport
affordability of ICTs
Measuring
the Information
Society
Table
Averagemobile-broadband
mobile-broadband
prices
and
ranges
region,
a percentage
of GNI
2014
Table 4.6:
4.6: Average
prices
and
ranges
by by
region,
as aaspercentage
of GNI
p.c.,p.c.,
2014
Region
Postpaid
handset-based 500MB
Min.
Max. Average*
Prepaid
handset-based 500MB
Min.
Max. Average*
Postpaid
computer-based 1GB
Min.
Max. Average*
Prepaid
computer-based 1GB
Min.
Max.
Average*
Europe
0.09
1.99
0.81
0.14
2.62
0.82
0.16
3.99
0.90
0.16
17.46
1.56
CIS
0.45
16.44
3.35
0.45
16.44
3.70
0.57
16.44
4.83
0.57
16.44
4.92
The Americas
0.85
32.80
4.55
0.59
32.80
4.39
0.37
32.80
4.88
0.49
32.80
6.24
0.17
30.54
4.39
0.26
27.99
4.28
0.35
68.80
7.53
0.49
55.99
6.77
Arab States
0.23
37.81
5.15
0.30
37.81
5.22
0.23
56.71
7.93
0.38
37.81
6.07
Africa
1.43
58.60
15.77
1.43
58.60
15.20
0.82
172.86
30.33
1.43 172.86
29.50
Note:*Simple
*Simpleaverages
averages
based
countries
for which
data
all mobile-broadband
were available.
Note:
based
on on
149149
countries
for which
priceprice
data for
all for
mobile-broadband
servicesservices
were available.
Source:ITU.
ITU.
Source:
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Africa:
Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband
prices represent less than 5 per cent of GNI
p.c. in only one out of five countries in the
Africa region (Chart 4.18), and therefore
in most countries the service is rather
unaffordable.
The most affordable prepaid handset-based
mobile-broadband services are found in those
African countries with the highest GNI p.c.
levels, such as Gabon, Mauritius, Seychelles
and South Africa. However, the prices in Cabo
Verde and Ghana, which have much lower
GNI p.c. levels, are as affordable as in those
countries, thus illustrating that it is not only a
matter of economic development, but also of
efficient regulation, policy-making and private
initiative.
Other countries with low GNI p.c. levels
that nevertheless stand out for low prepaid
handset-based mobile-broadband prices
include Gambia, Guinea, Kenya and
Mozambique. If low prices are maintained,
these countries could reach the 5 per cent
affordability target in the short or mid-term.
In Chad, Liberia and Niger, prepaid handsetbased mobile-broadband plans with a 30-day
validity period include large data allowances
45
As a % of GNI p.c.
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
Mauritius
South Africa
Seychelles
Cape Verde
Gabon
Namibia
Angola
Ghana
Botswana
Nigeria
Kenya
Mozambique
Cte d'Ivoire
Swaziland
S. Tome & Principe
Guinea
Gambia
Tanzania
Senegal
Congo (Rep.)
Zambia
Benin
Rwanda
Uganda
Lesotho
Ethiopia
Mali
Burkina Faso
Malawi
Sierra Leone
South Sudan
Togo
Zimbabwe
Madagascar
Burundi
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Chad
Liberia
Niger
59 91
2 GB cap
2 GB cap
3 GB cap
50
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.8 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1.2 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
Chart 4.18: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the Africa region, 2014
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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2 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
3 GB cap
Sudan
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
0.5 GB cap
Mauritania
0.5 GB cap
Algeria
Comoros
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
Jordan
0.5 GB cap
Lebanon
0.5 GB cap
Oman
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
Bahrain
Saudi Arabia
1 GB cap
Kuwait
3 GB cap
10
Yemen
2 GB cap
Tunisia
15
Qatar
As a % of GNI p.c.
20
0.5 GB cap
Chart 4.19: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of GNI
p.c. in the Arab States region, 2014
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
15
10
5
0
0.5 GB cap
Singapore
Hong Kong, China
Australia
New Zealand
Brunei Darussalam
Macao, China
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
Malaysia
Indonesia
Pakistan
Thailand
Iran (I.R.)
Mongolia
Maldives
Philippines
India
Cambodia
Timor-Leste
Bangladesh
Fiji
Lao P.D.R.
Samoa
Viet Nam
Nepal
Afghanistan
Micronesia
Kiribati
Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu
Solomon Islands
As a % of GNI p.c.
20
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
2 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.8 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.8 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
2 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
2 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
4 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
2 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1.5 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
Chart 4.20: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the Asia-Pacific region, 2014
Note: Japan and the Republic of Korea are not included in the comparison because more than 95 per cent of mobile subscriptions in these countries
are postpaid, with prepaid prices therefore being of little relevance.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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6
As a % of disposable income
per household
5
4
3
2
1
0
5
4
3
2
1
0
131
1 GB cap
Chart 4.21: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the CIS region, 2014
Tajikistan
0.5 GB cap
Kyrgyzstan
0.5 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
Georgia
Uzbekistan
0.5 GB cap
Moldova
0.5 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
Azerbaijan
Armenia
0.5 GB cap
Belarus
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
Kazakhstan
2.2 GB cap
10
Turkmenistan
15
Russian Federation
As a % of GNI p.c.
20
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
As a % of GNI p.c.
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Austria
Estonia
Finland
Lithuania
Poland
Spain
Switzerland
Croatia
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Italy
Slovenia
Portugal
Germany
Serbia
Slovakia
France
Hungary
Latvia
Belgium
Malta
Turkey
Greece
Romania
Ireland
Andorra
Bulgaria
Albania
Czech Republic
TFYR Macedonia
Denmark
Cyprus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Israel
Montenegro
3.0
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
2 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
6 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1.2 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1.4 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.6 GB cap
6 GB cap
Chart 4.22: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the Europe region, 2014
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
The Americas:
Almost all countries in the Americas region
have mobile-broadband prices that represent
less than 5 per cent of GNI p.c. (Chart 4.23).
The most affordable services are offered not
only in the regions high-income countries,
such as Canada, which tops the ranking, but
also in countries with lower income levels,
such as Uruguay, Costa Rica and Brazil.
Another country that stands out for offering
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6.0
4.0
2.0
0.0
0.5 GB cap
0.8 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
2 GB cap
1 GB cap
2 GB cap
2 GB cap
0.7 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
0.8 GB cap
1 GB cap
1 GB cap
10.0
Canada
Uruguay
Costa Rica
Chile
United States
Bahamas
Brazil
Barbados
Antigua & Barbuda
Panama
Trinidad & Tobago
Paraguay
Peru
Venezuela
Mexico
St. Vincent and the
St. Lucia
Colombia
Suriname
Grenada
Jamaica
Belize
Ecuador
St. Kitts and Nevis
Guatemala
El Salvador
Bolivia
Dominican Rep.
Honduras
Nicaragua
Haiti
As a % of GNI p.c.
12.0
7 GB cap
14.0
1.2 GB cap
2 GB cap
5 GB cap
1 GB cap
2 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
1 GB cap
1 GB cap
1 GB cap
0.5 GB cap
2.7 GB cap
1 GB cap
2 GB cap
Chart 4.23: Prepaid handset-based mobile-broadband prices (500MB per month) as a percentage of
GNIp.c. in the Americas region, 2014
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. values are based on World Bank data.
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Chart 4.24: International mobile roaming and domestic prices in Europe and the Gulf, 2014
Roaming and domestic prices for 500 MB data
transfer, 2014, averages for two regional groups
400
400
350
350
300
300
250
250
200
200
USD
USD
150
100
50
0
82
81
21
21
Europe
Gulf
306
150
100
13
383
50
0
52
25
16
Europe
Gulf
Note: Average regional prices were used for SMS in the calculation of the GCC-capped mobile-cellular roaming price basket. The mobile-cellular roaming basket includes the cost of making calls and sending SMS texts while abroad. Data on the GCC regional averages for both the mobile-cellular
roaming price basket and the mobile-broadband roaming prices are not available.
Source: ITU, based on BEREC, GCC Roaming Working Group and ITU data.
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
Finland
Iceland
Austria
Australia
Luxembourg
Norway
Qatar
Sweden
Singapore
Portugal
Andorra
Macao, China
Switzerland
Russian
Federation
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Bahrain
Korea (Rep.)
Belgium
Denmark
Lithuania
Croatia
France
New Zealand
Hong Kong, China
Sri Lanka
Kazakhstan
Poland
Belarus
Estonia
Spain
Slovenia
Latvia
Slovakia
Hungary
Greece
Brunei
Darussalam
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
UAE
Israel
Uruguay
Saudi Arabia
China
Cyprus
Turkey
Malaysia
Germany
Tunisia
Romania
Czech Republic
Ireland
Japan
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Sudan
Oman
Chile
Suriname
Bhutan
Lebanon
Thailand
Moldova
Canada
Barbados
Mauritius
Kuwait
United States
South Africa
Albania
Costa Rica
Malta
Armenia
Italy
Indonesia
Serbia
TFYR Macedonia
Panama
Peru
Seychelles
Mexico
Colombia
Turkmenistan
Iran (I.R.)
Georgia
Viet Nam
Mobile-broadband,
postpaid
handset-based (500 MB)
as % of
GNI p.c., USD,
GNI p.c. USD PPP$
2014*
0.09
0.15
0.16
0.17
0.18
0.18
0.23
0.28
0.35
0.37
0.41
0.41
0.43
Monthly data
allowance
(MB)
3.85
5.91
6.63
9.01
10.61
15.71
16.48
14.43
15.71
6.62
13.86
22.29
32.53
2.91
4.76
5.76
6.50
8.13
9.96
22.40
10.73
16.45
7.58
30.15
19.34
48771
46244
50340
65335
69810
102597
86703
61648
53986
21249
40974
64639
90589
0.45
5.21
11.96
13836
2250
0.47
0.47
0.48
0.48
0.52
0.52
0.53
0.55
0.55
0.55
0.56
0.57
0.57
0.57
0.58
0.58
0.59
0.62
0.62
0.63
0.78
0.79
19.90
16.45
7.98
10.45
19.90
26.55
6.54
6.09
19.89
16.59
18.06
1.49
5.52
6.34
3.23
8.61
14.59
11.94
7.95
9.27
8.60
14.86
16.66
12.68
13.60
12.03
16.71
17.69
9.57
8.44
16.85
12.77
23.21
4.16
11.02
10.53
9.90
10.26
14.52
13.36
14.80
12.42
13.93
15.50
51009
41638
19881
25894
46294
61608
14885
13407
43476
36089
38382
3167
11538
13227
6723
17762
29910
23197
15275
17792
13247
22667
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1000
500
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
500
1000
500
1024
3072
500
1536
800
1024
600
700
500
750
0.80
22.10
33.72
32976
2048
0.83
0.84
0.84
0.84
0.85
0.85
0.89
0.95
0.95
0.99
1.01
1.01
1.06
1.06
1.11
1.11
1.12
1.22
1.23
1.23
1.24
1.26
1.30
1.34
1.38
1.39
1.41
1.42
1.43
1.47
1.47
1.48
1.52
1.52
1.52
1.52
1.52
1.56
1.57
1.59
1.68
1.69
1.78
1.81
1.81
1.84
1.84
1.91
1.96
5.10
15.00
26.96
23.76
10.71
18.67
4.88
19.90
8.68
8.56
39.74
3.53
7.96
16.81
39.80
42.81
6.75
7.46
1.59
26.01
15.76
9.85
2.53
11.00
6.13
2.85
61.30
18.00
11.40
56.23
65.33
9.12
5.69
12.07
26.53
4.81
45.11
4.64
7.91
6.44
14.99
8.81
19.61
14.97
11.44
10.53
8.87
5.66
2.84
12.15
13.19
37.06
19.59
13.38
38.13
7.98
20.26
14.30
17.61
36.15
7.97
13.78
24.12
30.84
40.47
11.06
14.16
3.55
49.69
22.87
16.69
7.93
7343
21548
38713
33896
15165
26234
6553
25185
10959
10420
47203
4196
9041
18951
43047
46284
7243
7353
1548
25381
15215
9361
2328
9860
5335
2468
52158
15219
9560
46046
53417
7403
4505
9540
20959
3796
35584
3576
6044
4865
10689
6264
13197
9930
7582
6873
5774
3556
1738
600
500
1000
3072
1024
500
500
1024
500
800
500
1024
500
1500
1024
500
750
500
1000
500
600
1024
500
500
500
500
500
2048
1000
30720
1024
500
500
500
500
1500
1100
1624
5120
1024
1024
500
500
500
500
500
2048
700
500
15.24
6.94
52.44
14.52
18.38
86.65
65.33
19.16
10.57
17.81
29.92
10.39
40.67
12.54
14.14
12.70
25.51
15.49
29.34
21.27
18.82
26.85
12.48
7.01
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87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
Bosnia and H.
Jordan
Algeria
Mongolia
Trinidad & Tobago
Gabon
Maldives
Paraguay
Antigua &
Barbuda
Philippines
India
Cambodia
Venezuela
Namibia
Egypt
Grenada
Timor-Leste
Jamaica
St. Kitts and Nevis
Belize
Bolivia
St. Vincent
Bangladesh
Ecuador
Dominican Rep.
Lao P.D.R.
Angola
Brazil
Pakistan
Ghana
Morocco
El Salvador
Nigeria
Botswana
Samoa
Kenya
Tanzania
Fiji
Cape Verde
Guatemala
St. Lucia
Swaziland
Nepal
Nicaragua
Kyrgyzstan
Cte dIvoire
Guinea
Mozambique
Gambia
Afghanistan
Senegal
Congo (Rep.)
Papua New
Guinea
Zambia
Lesotho
Uganda
Vanuatu
Tajikistan
Ethiopia
Mali
Benin
Honduras
Comoros
Togo
Burkina Faso
South Sudan
Malawi
Zimbabwe
S. Tome &
Principe
Madagascar
Uzbekistan
Solomon Islands
Haiti
Mauritania
Congo (Dem.
Rep.)
Chad
Liberia
Niger
Myanmar**
Argentina**
San Marino**
Liechtenstein**
Monaco**
Syria**
Mobile-broadband,
postpaid
handset-based (500 MB)
as % of
GNI p.c., USD,
GNI p.c. USD PPP$
2014*
1.99
2.05
2.10
2.10
2.13
2.17
2.20
2.35
7.94
8.45
9.31
6.60
27.94
19.21
10.27
7.84
13.80
17.61
21.74
16.86
34.91
26.55
13.36
14.74
4775
4945
5325
3766
15744
10639
5594
4006
2.35
25.56
31.09
13037
500
2.47
2.51
2.53
2.61
2.64
2.70
2.73
3.02
3.11
3.14
3.33
3.34
3.44
3.49
3.50
3.70
4.12
4.25
4.32
4.37
4.48
4.68
4.84
5.40
5.79
5.84
5.89
5.90
5.95
6.35
6.93
7.17
7.22
7.45
7.71
7.96
8.38
9.31
9.36
10.07
10.61
11.57
11.73
6.73
3.28
2.00
27.24
12.90
7.06
17.04
10.00
13.52
36.30
12.50
7.09
18.52
2.93
16.79
17.76
4.97
18.31
42.07
4.95
6.60
11.78
15.00
12.19
37.43
19.30
5.69
4.22
21.64
19.13
19.27
42.17
17.97
4.53
11.49
8.01
10.11
3.56
4.75
4.19
6.10
10.11
25.28
15.44
11.41
5.17
35.72
25.12
24.49
22.25
14.85
20.98
44.75
21.46
15.79
24.55
8.31
29.43
35.53
12.82
21.04
55.22
17.25
21.57
23.70
28.54
21.39
68.86
23.89
12.64
9.89
32.67
33.26
36.79
52.14
43.35
15.19
29.36
23.20
21.14
7.81
9.28
15.19
17.67
20.60
39.66
3267
1568
949
12537
5864
3137
7483
3976
5215
13876
4505
2547
6454
1009
5754
5764
1449
5165
11678
1359
1768
3017
3716
2707
7762
3966
1159
859
4366
3616
3337
7053
2987
729
1788
1209
1449
460
609
500
689
1049
2587
700
600
600
800
500
500
1024
800
2048
750
1024
500
1500
500
500
1500
1024
500
500
3072
1000
10000
1024
750
500
1100
500
500
4096
5500
600
1500
500
500
1024
500
800
500
500
500
500
1500
500
11.84
19.91
21.63
2018
800
11.89
13.28
15.40
15.81
16.44
16.92
17.04
18.45
19.01
19.28
22.92
24.30
25.72
26.18
26.54
17.92
16.59
7.69
41.21
13.55
6.62
9.51
12.14
34.50
13.48
10.11
15.17
20.34
5.88
19.00
39.97
43.33
18.19
34.78
33.09
18.54
20.94
25.63
67.44
22.55
21.35
33.48
21.50
34.76
1808
1499
599
3127
989
470
669
789
2178
839
529
749
949
270
859
500
500
500
1024
1000
500
500
1024
1024
500
1000
500
500
512
500
500
500
500
1024
5000
500
700
500
27.10
33.17
52.60
1469
3072
28.26
28.75
30.54
32.80
37.81
10.35
45.00
40.68
22.12
33.36
32.63
440
1878
1598
809
1059
500
8000
500
7168
500
41.17
14.74
23.55
430
500
47.18
58.60
91.11
40.45
20.00
30.34
10.16
17.34
38.48
42.57
45.11
89.09
72.19
36.87
66.08
35.07
37.17
1029
410
400
2000
2048
3072
1024
500
500
1024
1024
1000
39.03
44.46
84.02
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
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Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Austria
Estonia
Finland
Lithuania
Singapore
Poland
Qatar
Spain
Hong Kong, China
Switzerland
Russian Federation
Kuwait
Croatia
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Bahrain
Australia
Italy
Slovenia
New Zealand
Portugal
Brunei Darussalam
Kazakhstan
Belarus
Canada
Germany
Serbia
Uruguay
Macao, China
Slovakia
France
Hungary
Azerbaijan
Latvia
UAE
Saudi Arabia
Belgium
Bhutan
Malta
Oman
Turkey
Sri Lanka
Malaysia
Costa Rica
Chile
Greece
Romania
United States
Ireland
Bahamas
Brazil
Indonesia
Andorra
Bulgaria
Albania
Pakistan
Lebanon
Thailand
Moldova
Mauritius
Barbados
Czech Republic
South Africa
TFYR Macedonia
Antigua & Barbuda
Panama
Tunisia
Denmark
Trinidad & Tobago
Iran (I.R.)
Seychelles
Paraguay
Georgia
Cyprus
Cape Verde
Peru
Bosnia and H.
Jordan
Israel
Algeria
Mongolia
Gabon
Maldives
Philippines
Mobile-broadband, prepaid
handset-based (500 MB)
as % of
GNI
USD
PPP$
p.c.
0.09
0.14
0.15
0.16
0.18
0.22
0.22
0.26
0.29
0.30
0.35
0.36
0.40
0.45
0.46
0.47
0.47
0.47
0.48
0.50
0.54
0.55
0.55
0.56
0.57
0.57
0.58
0.59
0.67
0.67
0.68
0.70
0.72
0.73
0.78
0.83
0.83
0.84
0.85
0.86
0.88
0.91
0.92
0.95
0.97
0.99
1.03
1.04
1.05
1.06
1.10
1.11
1.11
1.13
1.13
1.14
1.21
1.26
1.31
1.34
1.38
1.39
1.43
1.46
1.47
1.48
1.59
1.67
1.68
1.68
1.72
1.77
1.84
1.85
1.88
1.91
1.93
2.00
2.02
2.05
2.05
2.07
2.10
2.10
2.17
2.20
2.47
7.78
7.14
5.91
6.63
2.65
8.76
2.69
11.84
3.17
21.98
8.62
11.67
30.56
5.21
17.57
5.22
19.90
16.45
7.98
27.04
15.92
10.61
16.59
9.94
15.78
5.52
3.23
25.54
26.40
3.39
8.60
37.56
10.61
26.53
8.60
5.10
10.61
26.96
18.67
33.17
1.70
15.92
19.51
8.68
2.57
8.56
8.16
13.13
19.90
7.96
48.94
39.80
20.00
11.00
3.37
39.01
7.44
4.74
1.48
11.00
6.13
2.85
11.40
18.50
23.22
9.12
6.44
18.15
14.95
5.89
88.20
23.25
8.87
20.30
6.27
5.66
40.48
6.02
10.57
8.14
8.45
58.61
9.31
6.60
19.21
10.27
6.73
4.93
5.31
4.76
5.76
3.16
6.62
3.94
12.40
5.27
29.87
8.58
15.00
18.17
11.96
27.08
7.24
16.66
12.68
13.60
19.51
14.35
11.88
12.77
11.37
24.09
11.02
9.90
21.85
24.02
6.07
10.75
50.81
14.22
22.48
13.93
12.15
19.77
37.06
38.13
27.85
5.35
17.95
37.27
14.30
7.16
17.61
12.03
19.05
20.76
13.78
48.94
30.84
17.58
14.43
9.12
14.12
8.81
5.17
15.24
6.94
18.38
14.92
33.31
19.16
12.70
22.08
25.44
13.28
58.76
29.06
26.85
30.37
11.79
12.48
41.21
10.46
18.58
14.15
17.61
48.32
21.74
16.86
26.55
13.35
15.44
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800
700
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6144
1000
500
500
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1200
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800
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500
600
1400
500
500
1024
500
500
500
1000
2048
500
500
1024
1024
2048
2048
500
2000
2048
500
700
700
600
500
500
1024
500
600
500
1024
500
700
700
Rank Economy
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
India
Cambodia
Venezuela
Montenegro
Namibia
Sudan
Egypt
Mexico
St. Vincent
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
St. Lucia
Colombia
Bangladesh
Libya
Suriname
Grenada
Jamaica
Fiji
Armenia
Uzbekistan
Belize
Lao P.D.R.
Angola
Ecuador
Ghana
St. Kitts and Nevis
Guatemala
Morocco
El Salvador
Bolivia
Botswana
Nigeria
Samoa
Kenya
Mozambique
Dominican Rep.
Viet Nam
Nepal
Afghanistan
Kyrgyzstan
Cte dIvoire
Swaziland
S. Tome & Principe
Honduras
Guinea
Gambia
Nicaragua
Tanzania
Micronesia
Senegal
Congo (Rep.)
Zambia
Yemen
Benin
Kiribati
Rwanda
Papua New Guinea
Uganda
Vanuatu
Lesotho
Tajikistan
Ethiopia
Mali
Comoros
Burkina Faso
Malawi
Sierra Leone
South Sudan
Togo
Zimbabwe
Solomon Islands
Madagascar
Burundi
Haiti
Mauritania
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Chad
Liberia
Niger
Myanmar**
Argentina**
Somalia**
San Marino**
Djibouti**
Syria**
Mobile-broadband, prepaid
handset-based (500 MB)
as % of
GNI
USD
PPP$
p.c.
2.48
2.53
2.61
2.62
2.62
2.70
2.70
2.72
2.75
3.02
3.06
3.15
3.24
3.49
3.49
3.50
3.50
3.63
3.64
3.80
3.83
4.00
4.12
4.25
4.43
4.48
4.48
4.60
4.73
4.84
5.11
5.17
5.40
5.84
5.89
6.28
6.46
7.31
7.45
7.60
7.96
8.38
8.48
8.85
8.90
9.31
10.07
10.34
10.54
10.99
11.57
11.73
11.89
12.19
12.30
12.40
14.02
14.50
15.40
15.81
16.23
16.44
16.92
17.04
19.28
24.30
24.40
24.74
25.72
27.50
27.93
27.99
28.83
29.87
32.80
37.81
41.17
47.18
58.60
91.11
3.24
2.00
27.24
15.79
12.81
3.49
7.06
22.49
14.81
10.00
17.54
18.52
20.48
2.93
39.30
27.27
21.85
15.78
13.25
12.02
6.00
15.00
4.97
18.31
21.25
6.60
51.85
12.80
11.90
15.00
10.85
33.42
12.19
19.30
5.69
3.19
31.04
10.59
4.53
4.37
8.01
10.11
21.10
10.83
16.15
3.56
4.19
15.41
7.54
30.00
10.11
25.28
17.92
13.50
8.09
27.04
7.35
24.38
7.69
41.21
20.27
13.55
6.62
9.51
13.48
15.17
5.48
13.59
20.34
12.14
20.00
37.29
10.56
6.47
22.12
33.36
14.74
40.45
20.00
30.34
10.16
10.53
15.00
26.53
28.13
534.52
11.29
5.17
35.72
25.85
24.94
7.81
24.49
31.96
19.64
14.85
22.90
33.70
8.31
72.34
46.21
28.54
24.47
20.00
25.97
25.76
12.82
21.04
37.24
21.57
63.92
24.44
23.93
28.54
24.17
61.48
21.39
23.89
12.64
6.23
62.10
26.16
15.19
12.66
23.20
21.14
50.91
17.18
31.58
7.81
15.19
39.38
17.67
20.60
39.66
39.97
30.00
17.09
18.27
26.49
18.19
34.78
52.96
33.09
18.54
20.94
22.55
33.48
20.04
28.96
25.62
36.59
35.78
33.28
16.68
44.46
84.02
23.55
72.19
36.87
66.08
35.07
25.64
48.03
600
600
800
6144
500
2000
500
1024
1024
650
500
1250
2048
500
500
5120
1024
2048
2048
500
500
1024
1024
500
500
1024
1074
1024
3000
1024
550
500
750
500
500
500
2800
4200
500
750
500
800
500
1000
1024
500
500
2000
500
2048
1500
500
500
1000
500
500
500
1500
500
750
600
1000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1200
500
500
500
1000
7168
500
500
2000
2000
3072
1024
510
600
800
500
500
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
137
Austria
Norway
Luxembourg
Qatar
Sweden
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Denmark
Singapore
France
United States
Lithuania
Switzerland
Australia
United Kingdom
Finland
Germany
Andorra
Saudi Arabia
Poland
Kazakhstan
Romania
Oman
Netherlands
Hong Kong, China
Estonia
Belgium
Macao, China
Latvia
Uruguay
Malta
Hungary
Russian Federation
Belarus
Brunei Darussalam
Mauritius
Slovenia
New Zealand
UAE
Slovakia
Kuwait
Japan
Portugal
Canada
Cyprus
Turkey
Libya
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Bahrain
Sri Lanka
Korea (Rep.)
Croatia
Spain
South Africa
Montenegro
Chile
Greece
Barbados
Azerbaijan
China
Iran (I.R.)
Egypt
Indonesia
Serbia
TFYR Macedonia
Costa Rica
Malaysia
Seychelles
Mongolia
Trinidad & Tobago
Colombia
Panama
Mexico
Brazil
Suriname
Thailand
Albania
Tunisia
Lebanon
Bhutan
Armenia
Antigua & Barbuda
as % of
GNI p.c.
USD
PPP$
0.16
0.18
0.23
0.23
0.28
0.29
0.30
0.30
0.34
0.35
0.37
0.37
0.37
0.40
0.41
0.47
0.49
0.50
0.53
0.54
0.57
0.57
0.59
0.61
0.62
0.64
0.67
0.69
0.69
0.73
0.74
0.76
0.78
0.79
0.80
0.80
0.82
0.82
0.83
0.84
0.89
0.92
0.93
0.94
0.94
0.95
1.00
1.05
1.06
1.10
1.12
1.14
1.16
1.17
1.17
1.18
1.31
1.37
1.40
1.42
1.46
1.49
1.50
1.55
1.56
1.57
1.59
1.61
1.69
1.78
2.10
2.13
2.21
2.24
2.26
2.31
2.33
2.49
2.53
2.53
2.54
2.66
2.66
2.69
6.63
15.71
13.27
16.48
14.43
11.05
10.60
8.80
17.64
15.71
13.25
16.32
4.61
30.56
22.54
16.45
19.77
19.83
18.03
11.73
6.31
5.52
4.48
13.00
26.53
20.51
9.88
26.52
37.31
9.35
9.38
13.27
8.60
9.12
4.46
22.10
6.53
15.92
24.89
26.96
13.25
35.14
35.68
16.57
40.86
19.90
9.09
11.79
16.81
6.72
18.62
3.01
25.07
13.05
29.19
7.28
7.89
17.36
26.53
18.00
8.92
8.14
7.23
4.06
4.64
7.91
6.44
12.82
14.67
19.53
6.60
27.94
13.94
19.95
18.73
22.48
18.18
11.05
9.48
8.84
20.90
5.16
8.42
29.26
5.76
9.96
10.17
22.40
10.73
8.90
8.21
7.93
11.75
16.45
11.23
16.32
6.76
18.17
16.26
12.68
14.93
18.04
23.97
10.48
11.02
7.75
24.85
22.22
26.36
11.77
22.27
50.47
17.42
11.71
14.96
13.93
20.93
13.68
33.72
10.53
17.82
19.15
37.06
17.75
54.15
33.72
18.97
34.96
20.26
14.98
21.70
24.12
12.74
31.74
8.38
28.86
18.09
29.05
15.29
12.93
25.18
27.67
14.52
21.27
13.30
21.89
14.08
12.54
14.14
12.70
18.90
30.20
29.23
16.86
34.91
22.93
33.95
26.61
29.51
30.80
27.50
17.62
19.92
16.19
18.18
35.60
GNI p.c.,
USD,
2014*
50340
102597
69810
86703
61648
46244
43047
35584
61608
53986
43476
53417
14885
90589
65335
41638
48771
47203
40974
26234
13227
11538
9041
25381
51009
38382
17762
46294
64639
15275
15165
20959
13247
13836
6723
32976
9560
23197
36089
38713
17792
46046
46284
21249
52158
25185
10959
13497
18951
7353
19881
3167
25894
13407
29910
7403
7243
15215
22667
15219
7343
6553
5774
3137
3576
6044
4865
9540
10420
13197
3766
15744
7582
10689
9930
11678
9361
5335
4505
4196
9860
2328
3796
13037
Monthly
data
allowance
(GB)
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
5
1
1
1
15
2
1
2
1
5
2
3
2
2
2
3
1
1
1
15
2
1
5
1
1
1
2
1
8
6
2
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
1
2
5
1
1
2
1
1
5
1
1
1
1
3
1
4
5
2
1
2
1
Mobile-broadband, postpaid
computer-based (1 GB)
Rank Economy
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
Grenada
Namibia
Georgia
Peru
India
Cambodia
Gabon
Belize
Jordan
Moldova
Maldives
Dominican Rep.
Venezuela
Timor-Leste
Viet Nam
Bosnia and H.
Ecuador
Ghana
El Salvador
Morocco
Paraguay
Lao P.D.R.
Jamaica
Bangladesh
St. Vincent
Algeria
Samoa
Fiji
Cape Verde
Guatemala
Bolivia
Tanzania
Philippines
Sudan
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Pakistan
Cameroon
Botswana
Kenya
Nepal
Mozambique
Honduras
Zambia
Swaziland
Vanuatu
Burkina Faso
Tajikistan
Lesotho
Afghanistan
Benin
Congo (Rep.)
Togo
Papua New Guinea
Cte dIvoire
Guinea
S. Tome & Principe
Mali
Rwanda
Uzbekistan
Uganda
Comoros
Haiti
Ethiopia
Sierra Leone
Malawi
South Sudan
Chad
Madagascar
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Mauritania
Zimbabwe
Solomon Islands
Gambia
Burundi
Liberia
Myanmar**
Argentina**
San Marino**
Liechtenstein**
Monaco**
Syria**
as % of
GNI p.c.
USD
PPP$
2.73
2.81
2.87
3.04
3.13
3.15
3.19
3.33
3.42
3.46
3.70
3.70
3.70
3.77
3.92
3.99
4.44
4.48
4.52
4.68
5.03
5.15
5.19
5.28
5.46
5.59
5.84
5.95
6.35
6.74
6.75
7.59
8.27
8.78
9.26
9.46
9.47
9.80
10.47
11.30
11.57
11.78
13.05
13.13
13.94
14.16
14.77
15.81
16.20
16.44
19.19
21.23
21.53
21.58
22.92
23.92
25.13
26.06
27.10
27.20
28.03
28.75
28.88
28.92
32.80
39.29
41.23
41.88
47.15
47.18
52.00
54.89
56.71
62.85
68.80
143.92
149.35
172.86
17.04
13.73
8.50
15.85
4.10
2.49
28.32
12.50
14.08
7.12
17.23
17.76
38.67
12.50
5.67
15.87
21.28
6.60
13.99
11.78
16.81
6.21
22.54
4.44
29.39
24.82
19.30
21.64
19.13
18.75
14.33
5.43
22.50
11.33
13.80
21.34
9.54
56.14
11.86
12.14
74.87
11.37
7.93
6.67
25.30
21.33
36.77
41.21
10.11
13.55
23.96
12.19
14.16
46.52
10.11
40.22
30.34
9.98
33.17
15.17
14.70
45.00
14.42
20.23
22.12
15.37
22.66
9.41
37.29
40.45
19.05
19.65
50.04
45.00
91.64
59.90
32.33
59.00
10.16
21.05
38.48
53.48
58.91
89.09
22.25
26.73
18.72
27.88
14.26
6.44
39.13
21.46
29.35
17.35
22.41
35.53
50.70
18.56
14.02
27.60
37.30
21.57
26.62
23.70
31.59
16.02
34.96
12.59
38.96
57.98
23.89
32.67
33.26
35.80
31.91
12.72
51.59
25.38
35.27
37.44
27.61
41.36
25.70
137.72
25.28
26.61
13.02
49.46
47.59
88.69
34.78
22.32
33.09
62.59
35.35
29.90
72.97
21.35
43.71
63.43
21.86
52.60
33.41
36.54
34.11
33.83
44.46
43.05
48.26
34.40
72.19
60.04
31.40
126.03
82.33
87.93
217.02
83.41
108.77
35.07
37.17
GNI p.c.,
USD,
2014*
7483
5864
3556
6264
1568
949
10639
4505
4945
2468
5594
5764
12537
3976
1738
4775
5754
1768
3716
3017
4006
1449
5215
1009
6454
5325
3966
4366
3616
3337
2547
859
3267
1548
1788
2707
1209
6873
1359
1289
7762
1159
729
609
2178
1808
2987
3127
749
989
1499
689
789
2587
529
2018
1449
460
1469
669
629
1878
599
839
809
470
659
270
949
1029
440
430
1059
859
1598
500
260
410
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
138
Monthly
data
allowance
(GB)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
5
3
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
10
2
5
1
1
3
2
1
6
6
1
2
1
5
5
1
2
2
4
20
1
1
2
1
1
5
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
4
3
3
1
2
8
1
1
7
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
1
1
1
20
7
1
Chapter 4
Austria
Sweden
Iceland
Poland
Lithuania
France
Spain
Qatar
Kuwait
United Kingdom
Bahrain
United States
Singapore
Australia
Switzerland
Belgium
Saudi Arabia
Ireland
Brunei Darussalam
Kazakhstan
Hong Kong, China
Oman
Netherlands
Slovenia
Croatia
Finland
Russian Federation
Belarus
New Zealand
UAE
Romania
Italy
Estonia
Malta
Canada
Sri Lanka
Germany
Uruguay
Macao, China
Serbia
Portugal
Andorra
Czech Republic
Egypt
Albania
Mauritius
Turkey
Azerbaijan
Israel
Barbados
Hungary
TFYR Macedonia
Antigua & Barbuda
Bhutan
Malaysia
Moldova
Trinidad & Tobago
Slovakia
Iran (I.R.)
Jordan
Mongolia
Greece
Indonesia
South Africa
Panama
Cape Verde
Latvia
Colombia
Morocco
Seychelles
Tunisia
Lebanon
Brazil
Montenegro
Mexico
Thailand
Cyprus
Georgia
Maldives
India
Cambodia
Gabon
as % of
GNI p.c.
USD
PPP$
GNI p.c.,
USD,
2014*
0.16
0.24
0.29
0.29
0.34
0.37
0.37
0.38
0.46
0.47
0.48
0.49
0.49
0.50
0.51
0.52
0.54
0.55
0.57
0.57
0.60
0.61
0.62
0.69
0.78
0.78
0.79
0.80
0.83
0.84
0.88
0.89
0.90
0.91
0.94
0.97
1.01
1.02
1.05
1.12
1.12
1.14
1.25
1.35
1.39
1.43
1.45
1.46
1.47
1.54
1.58
1.59
1.67
1.67
1.69
1.73
1.77
1.83
1.84
2.05
2.10
2.11
2.12
2.23
2.24
2.36
2.36
2.36
2.37
2.45
2.53
2.54
2.61
2.62
2.72
2.76
2.84
2.87
2.96
3.12
3.16
3.19
6.63
12.12
11.05
3.17
4.23
13.25
9.29
27.47
17.57
16.45
7.98
21.77
22.10
27.04
38.20
19.90
11.73
19.90
15.78
5.52
19.09
13.00
26.53
13.27
8.70
31.71
9.12
4.46
24.89
26.96
6.63
26.53
13.27
15.92
40.86
2.57
39.67
12.91
56.34
5.66
19.90
39.01
19.73
3.53
5.21
11.40
13.25
8.92
41.64
19.50
17.41
6.44
18.15
3.24
14.67
3.56
23.25
27.17
8.87
8.45
6.60
39.80
6.32
13.73
19.95
7.10
29.98
14.94
5.95
26.98
8.84
20.90
25.37
15.79
22.49
12.28
59.70
8.50
13.78
4.08
2.50
28.32
5.76
9.02
8.90
5.27
6.19
11.23
9.24
37.34
27.08
12.68
13.60
21.77
23.14
19.51
22.71
16.71
23.97
15.42
24.09
11.02
24.53
24.85
22.22
14.85
12.06
23.95
20.93
13.68
19.15
37.06
11.49
23.92
15.80
17.95
34.96
7.16
36.09
16.12
76.21
10.12
22.78
28.31
12.25
9.69
18.38
21.82
21.27
34.34
15.73
28.20
12.70
22.08
10.18
30.20
8.68
29.06
36.40
26.85
17.61
16.86
41.51
17.11
28.84
33.95
12.34
55.84
24.58
11.97
40.36
19.92
33.30
25.85
31.96
30.56
60.79
18.72
17.93
14.20
6.46
39.13
50340
61648
46244
13227
14885
43476
29910
86703
46046
41638
19881
53417
53986
65335
90589
46294
26234
43047
32976
11538
38382
25381
51009
23197
13407
48771
13836
6723
36089
38713
9041
35584
17762
20959
52158
3167
47203
15165
64639
6044
21249
40974
18951
3137
4505
9560
10959
7343
33896
15219
13247
4865
13037
2328
10420
2468
15744
17792
5774
4945
3766
22667
3576
7403
10689
3616
15275
7582
3017
13197
4196
9860
11678
7243
9930
5335
25185
3556
5594
1568
949
10639
Monthly
data
allowance
(GB)
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
6
1
1
2
1
60
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
3
2
1
1
1
7
15
1
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
4
1
5
2
1
1
1
40
1
4
2
5
2
1
6
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
Mobile-broadband, prepaid
computer-based (1 GB)
Rank Economy
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
Bulgaria
Grenada
Fiji
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Belize
Philippines
Suriname
Ghana
Namibia
Timor-Leste
Sudan
Paraguay
Chile
Lao P.D.R.
Bangladesh
Armenia
St. Vincent
Algeria
Jamaica
Angola
Samoa
Dominican Rep.
Guatemala
El Salvador
Pakistan
S. Tome & Principe
Honduras
Nigeria
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Mozambique
Bolivia
Ecuador
Botswana
Cameroon
Kenya
Nicaragua
Yemen
Tanzania
Nepal
Zambia
Papua New Guinea
Swaziland
Afghanistan
Burkina Faso
Tajikistan
Bosnia and H.
Peru
Benin
Congo (Rep.)
Rwanda
Togo
Lesotho
Cte dIvoire
Guinea
Ethiopia
Mali
Uganda
Comoros
Vanuatu
Burundi
Haiti
Mauritania
Sierra Leone
Chad
Malawi
Zimbabwe
Madagascar
South Sudan
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Solomon Islands
Senegal
Niger
Gambia
Liberia
Myanmar**
Liechtenstein**
Somalia**
San Marino**
Argentina**
Nauru**
as % of
GNI p.c.
USD
PPP$
3.31
3.50
3.64
3.70
3.92
4.00
4.13
4.27
4.48
4.51
4.53
4.57
4.70
4.98
5.15
5.28
5.32
5.46
5.59
6.22
6.38
6.49
6.59
6.93
7.10
8.74
8.85
8.90
9.46
9.47
9.80
10.05
10.23
10.27
10.33
11.30
11.78
11.89
12.19
12.64
13.05
14.16
14.50
14.77
15.17
16.20
16.44
17.46
19.50
21.53
21.58
22.43
22.92
24.35
25.13
26.06
26.19
27.20
28.88
28.92
29.26
29.87
32.80
37.81
41.23
47.18
48.79
48.89
50.87
53.28
54.89
55.99
57.85
91.11
143.92
172.86
20.28
21.85
13.25
38.67
5.67
15.00
11.24
33.33
6.60
22.02
15.00
5.89
15.69
63.08
6.21
4.44
16.83
29.39
24.82
27.04
27.47
21.44
31.64
19.27
22.00
9.89
10.83
16.15
21.34
9.54
56.14
5.10
21.71
49.24
66.84
12.14
11.37
17.72
13.50
9.05
7.93
21.33
24.38
36.77
8.72
10.11
13.55
69.46
101.79
14.16
46.52
11.76
10.11
30.41
30.34
9.98
10.25
15.17
14.42
20.23
76.23
6.47
22.12
33.36
22.66
40.45
10.97
35.00
18.63
42.14
19.65
74.57
50.56
30.34
59.90
59.00
10.16
21.83
25.00
26.53
31.21
108.17
38.49
28.54
20.00
50.70
14.02
25.76
25.77
56.47
21.57
42.88
22.27
13.20
29.49
91.52
16.02
12.59
36.36
38.96
57.98
41.96
31.57
26.54
63.30
36.79
41.86
34.50
17.18
31.58
37.44
27.61
9.97
48.35
86.30
122.96
25.70
25.28
45.29
30.00
21.20
26.61
47.59
26.49
88.69
25.27
22.32
33.09
120.76
179.03
29.90
72.97
29.23
21.35
79.44
63.43
21.86
28.70
33.41
34.11
33.83
64.34
16.68
44.46
84.02
48.26
72.19
40.08
64.03
58.74
31.40
71.56
103.01
66.08
217.02
108.77
35.07
GNI p.c.,
USD,
2014*
7353
7483
4366
12537
1738
4505
3267
9361
1768
5864
3976
1548
4006
15215
1449
1009
3796
6454
5325
5215
5165
3966
5764
3337
3716
1359
1469
2178
2707
1209
6873
609
2547
5754
7762
1289
1159
1788
1329
859
729
1808
2018
2987
689
749
989
4775
6264
789
2587
629
529
1499
1449
460
470
669
599
839
3127
260
809
1059
659
1029
270
859
440
949
430
1598
1049
400
500
410
25.64
Monthly
data
allowance
(GB)
1
1
8
1
2
1
2
5
1
1
1
3
3
14
5
1
28
3
2
1
1
1
3
2
3
5
1
1
2
2
4
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
4
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
4
3
1
1
1
1
2
1
7
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
5
3
1
10
1
1
1
1
7
1
Note: * Data correspond to the GNI per capita (Atlas method) in 2013 or latest available year adjusted with the international inflation rates.
** Country not ranked because data on GNI p.c. are not available for the last five years.
Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
139
Macao, China
Kuwait
Singapore
Norway
Qatar
Hong Kong, China
Iran (I.R.)
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Russian Federation
United States
Austria
Denmark
Sweden
United Kingdom
Japan
Andorra
Finland
Australia
Oman
Bahrain
Iceland
Kazakhstan
United Arab
Emirates
Germany
Canada
Saudi Arabia
Korea (Rep.)
Cyprus
Trinidad & Tobago
France
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Latvia
Lithuania
Greece
Venezuela
Ireland
Brunei Darussalam
Belarus
Sri Lanka
Israel
Ukraine
Costa Rica
Uruguay
Seychelles
Bahamas
Slovenia
New Zealand
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Poland
Malta
Estonia
Portugal
Spain
Mauritius
Tunisia
Azerbaijan
Mongolia
Malaysia
Turkey
Maldives
Panama
Croatia
China
Brazil
Romania
Lebanon
St. Kitts and Nevis
Indonesia
Chile
Hungary
Viet Nam
Montenegro
Armenia
Mexico
Thailand
South Africa
Egypt
Barbados
Bhutan
Suriname
Georgia
Serbia
Mobile
Fixed
-cellular
telephone
sub-basket
sub-basket
IPB 2014 as a % of
as% of
GNI pc, GNI p.c.,
2014
2014
Fixed
broadband GNI p.c.,
sub-basket
USD,
as a % of 2014*
GNI pc,
2014
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.4
0.4
0.4
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.6
0.6
0.6
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.8
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.3
0.1
0.4
0.1
0.4
0.5
0.3
0.5
0.8
0.7
0.6
1.0
0.6
0.3
0.8
0.5
0.5
0.3
0.7
0.3
0.1
0.4
0.2
0.3
0.3
0.2
0.4
0.5
0.3
0.5
0.8
0.3
0.2
0.4
0.5
0.9
1.1
0.3
0.3
0.4
0.7
0.6
0.9
0.3 64639
0.3 46046
0.7 53986
0.6 102597
0.9 86703
0.7 38382
0.9
5774
0.5 90589
0.7 69810
0.7 13836
0.4 53417
0.6 50340
0.9 61608
0.8 61648
0.5 41638
0.5 46284
0.6 40974
0.9 48771
1.2 65335
1.2 25381
1.1 19881
0.8 46244
1.1 11538
0.8
0.3
0.3
1.7
38713
0.8
0.8
0.8
0.8
0.9
0.9
0.9
0.9
0.9
0.9
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.3
1.3
1.4
1.4
1.4
1.4
1.6
1.6
1.6
1.6
1.7
1.7
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.9
2.0
2.0
2.0
2.1
2.1
2.1
2.2
2.2
2.2
2.3
2.3
2.4
2.4
2.4
2.5
2.6
0.7
0.7
0.6
0.3
1.2
0.5
0.8
1.2
1.0
0.9
0.9
0.9
1.2
0.1
1.2
0.5
0.3
1.1
0.6
0.9
1.1
0.8
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.3
1.2
1.6
1.7
0.6
0.8
1.4
1.3
0.6
1.4
0.5
1.5
1.0
1.2
0.8
1.8
1.3
0.9
1.9
1.3
1.1
1.1
1.2
2.1
1.8
1.2
1.3
0.8
2.2
1.3
2.8
1.0
1.7
1.3
0.4
0.8
1.5
0.5
0.7
0.6
0.9
0.4
1.2
1.1
0.5
0.9
1.0
0.9
0.7
0.5
1.2
1.1
0.7
1.2
0.4
1.3
1.1
0.5
1.6
1.3
1.0
1.2
0.5
1.1
1.0
0.8
1.3
1.6
0.9
1.5
0.8
1.2
1.7
1.0
0.7
2.5
1.2
1.4
1.7
0.7
2.3
3.1
2.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
2.2
3.1
1.9
2.6
1.3
1.8
1.7
2.0
2.0
1.5
2.1
1.9
2.9
1.2
1.0
1.2
1.3
1.0
0.9
0.8
1.0
0.9
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.2
1.6
0.7
1.9
1.6
1.6
1.2
1.1
1.8
1.1
1.4
1.7
1.3
1.8
1.3
1.1
1.1
1.8
1.4
1.6
1.3
2.9
1.7
2.1
2.3
3.1
1.1
2.9
1.8
2.0
3.6
1.3
1.1
2.1
3.2
3.1
2.2
2.2
2.0
3.1
3.2
3.2
3.6
2.5
4.1
3.4
4.4
4.8
4.8
3.5
47203
52158
26234
25894
25185
15744
43476
35584
46294
51009
15275
14885
22667
12537
43047
32976
6723
3167
33896
3956
9540
15165
13197
21548
23197
36089
17792
18951
13227
20959
17762
21249
29910
9560
4196
7343
3766
10420
10959
5594
10689
13407
6553
11678
9041
9860
13876
3576
15215
13247
1738
7243
3796
9930
5335
7403
3137
15219
2328
9361
3556
6044
Rank Economy
and
87 Bosnia
Herzegovina
88 Sudan
89 Antigua & Barbuda
90 TFYR Macedonia
91 Algeria
92 Botswana
93 Peru
94 Colombia
95 Bulgaria
96 Ecuador
97 India
98 Bangladesh
99 Moldova
100 Jamaica
101 Dominican Rep.
102 Jordan
103 Grenada
104 Gabon
105 Pakistan
106 Albania
107 Dominica
108 Morocco
109 Paraguay
110 St. Lucia
Vincent and
111 St.
the G.
112 Guyana
113 Fiji
114 El Salvador
115 Namibia
116 Equatorial Guinea
117 Kyrgyzstan
118 Guatemala
119 Cape Verde
120 Philippines
121 Yemen
122 Lao P.D.R.
123 Nepal
124 Angola
125 Ghana
126 South Sudan
127 Lesotho
128 Samoa
129 Nigeria
130 Micronesia
131 Bolivia
132 Honduras
133 Timor-Leste
134 Cambodia
135 Belize
136 Swaziland
137 Marshall Islands
138 Nicaragua
139 Ethiopia
140 S. Tome & Principe
141 Vanuatu
142 Afghanistan
143 Tanzania
144 Kenya
145 Papua New Guinea
146 Zambia
147 Congo (Rep.)
148 Cte dIvoire
149 Mauritania
150 Senegal
151 Zimbabwe
152 Haiti
153 Mozambique
154 Gambia
155 Sierra Leone
156 Burkina Faso
157 Kiribati
158 Benin
159 Comoros
160 Solomon Islands
161 Uganda
162 Mali
163 Burundi
164 Chad
165 Eritrea
166 Togo
167 Niger
168 Malawi
169 Madagascar
170 Central African Rep.
Mobile
Fixed
-cellular
telephone
sub-basket
sub-basket
IPB 2014 as a % of
as% of
GNI pc, GNI p.c.,
2014
2014
Fixed
broadband GNI p.c.,
sub-basket
USD,
as a % of 2014*
GNI pc,
2014
2.7
2.6
3.7
2.0
4775
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.9
2.9
3.0
3.0
3.1
3.1
3.3
3.4
3.4
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.8
3.8
3.9
3.9
4.0
4.1
4.3
2.3
1.2
2.1
1.3
2.1
2.3
3.0
1.9
1.4
1.9
3.0
0.2
2.7
3.1
1.9
2.2
5.7
5.2
1.8
2.1
2.6
2.5
2.3
2.6
2.2
3.1
2.9
1.5
2.4
3.1
5.4
3.6
2.1
1.7
4.4
1.9
3.0
1.2
3.7
2.2
1.9
8.0
2.9
4.7
3.5
4.4
3.5
5.1
3.2
4.4
5.0
4.0
2.9
1.9
4.2
5.3
5.3
5.5
5.7
4.3
7.3
4.7
3.4
4.4
1.8
6.6
4.7
6.1
6.2
1548
13037
4865
5325
7762
6264
7582
7353
5754
1568
1009
2468
5215
5764
4945
7483
10639
1359
4505
6923
3017
4006
7053
4.3
2.0
4.6
6.3
4775
4.3
4.3
4.5
4.6
4.6
5.6
5.7
5.9
5.9
6.0
6.3
6.4
6.6
6.8
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.6
7.6
7.8
8.1
8.3
8.7
9.3
10.4
11.0
13.7
14.4
14.7
15.9
16.9
17.3
17.5
17.7
18.2
20.4
20.6
20.9
25.0
25.7
28.3
29.5
35.0
35.5
37.5
38.9
39.1
39.9
40.5
43.2
43.4
47.0
47.0
47.7
52.5
58.3
65.3
65.9
81.8
1.0
2.4
2.9
2.5
1.6
1.2
2.2
3.6
5.8
0.9
3.9
4.1
3.8
2.2
2.7
4.1
3.7
3.1
4.4
11.3
3.6
6.0
4.8
6.3
1.8
12.8
4.6
2.1
6.7
15.1
2.7
18.1
13.2
7.7
4.1
9.0
16.7
32.3
14.3
14.2
7.4
24.7
5.9
6.3
22.7
5.2
19.4
28.9
8.2
9.7
18.0
6.3
20.9
11.2
19.0
35.4
47.0
47.4
93.8
4.2
5.5
4.8
1.9
2.0
4.9
7.9
10.4
3.8
7.6
3.1
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Source: ITU. GNI p.c. and PPP$ values are based on World Bank data.
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Endnotes
1
See, for instance, Section 4.5 in ITU (2014b) for an analysis of the determining factors in mobile-cellular and fixedbroadband uptake.
http://www.cnmc.es/Portals/0/Ficheros/sala_de_prensa/2014/01_Enero/20140131_Preciosmayoristas_bandancha.pdf.
http://www.moc.gov.il/sip_storage/FILES/8/3358.pdf.
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/newslog/Kazakhstan+To+Get+MNP+This+Year.aspx.
http://www.artpsenegal.net/images/LIGNES_DIRECTRICES_RELATIVES_A_LA_PORTABILITES_DE_NUMEROS_MOBILES_
AU_SENEGAL_VF.pdf.
http://www.tra.gov.ae/news/tra-announces-uae-mobile-number-portability-arrangement-to-be-effective-within-two-
months-.
European Commission: Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2014, Digital Inclusion and Skills.
For example, if country A and country B have the same price in USD for any given ICT service, but in country A prices
of other products are in general cheaper (in USD), then applying PPP exchange rates to the price of the ICT service
in country A will make this service more expensive. That is because, compared to country B, in country A the same
amount of USD (exchanged into national currency at market exchange rates) can buy more products or services. The ICT
service in country A is thus more expensive in terms of what could be purchased with that amount in each country. The
International Comparison Program (ICP) is the major global initiative to produce internationally comparable price levels.
For more information on the PPP methodology and data, see http://icp.worldbank.org.
10
GNI takes into account all production in the domestic economy (i.e. GDP) plus the net flows of factor income (such as
rents, profits and labour income) from abroad. The Atlas method eases exchange-rate fluctuations by using a three-year
moving average, price-adjusted conversion factor. See: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD.
11
It should be noted that fixed-telephone and mobile-cellular subscriptions are not strictly comparable, since the former
are usually shared per household/organization and the latter are mainly for individual use.
12
By 2014, fixed-telephone networks had ceased to exist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, South Sudan,
and Nauru.
13
14
ITU: Trends in Telecommunication Reform, Special Edition: 4th Generation Regulation: Driving Digital Communications
Ahead, Geneva, 2014.
15
Only one operator offers mobile-cellular services in Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu. In Cabo Verde, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, and Vanuatu, two operators compete in the mobile-cellular market, but only in Cabo Verde and
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines does the alternative operator hold more than 25 per cent of the market share. Source:
GSMA Intelligence.
16
Data on mobile-cellular prices were available for eleven CIS countries in 2014. This compares with mobile-cellular price
data available for 44 countries in Africa, 21 in the Arab States, 39 in Asia and the Pacific, 42 in Europe and 34 in the
Americas.
17
Bulgaria and Albania stand out, with the most expensive prepaid mobile-cellular prices in PPP terms in Europe, at PPP$
63 and PPP$ 56 respectively. In the Americas, Nicaragua (PPP$ 78) and Belize (PPP$ 54) have much higher prices than
the average for the region. In Africa, prices in Cabo Verde (PPP$ 55) and Madagascar (PPP$ 58) are about double the
regional average.
18
Considering the 183 countries included in the mobile-cellular price comparison, the average GNI p.c. in Africa is less than
half the average GNI p.c. in the CIS, the region with the second lowest average GNI p.c.
19
See http://www.millicom.com/where-we-operate/#ghana.
20
January 2015 market shares, see: Ghana National Communication Authority market report, at: http://www.nca.org.gh/
downloads/Voice_Market_Share_March_2015_Final.pdf.
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21
See Ghana National Communication Authority Press Release, Mobile number portability in Ghana passes 2 million, at:
http://www.nca.org.gh/downloads/NCA_MNP_Passes_2_Million.pdf.
22
See http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/6062.pdf.
23
24
See for example Verizons MORE Everything Plan and AT&Ts Mobile Share Value Plans, which allow sharing of data
contracted with up to 10 devices. For more information, see http://www.verizonwireless.com/landingpages/more-
everything/and http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html.
25
Considering the 183 countries included in the mobile-cellular price comparison, the average GNI p.c. in the European
region is twice the average GNI p.c. in the Arab States region, two and a half times more than in the Asia and the Pacific
region, three times more than in the Americas region, five and a half times the CIS figure, and more than ten times the
average GNI p.c. in the Africa region. The CIS and Europe are the regions with the lowest dispersion in GNI p.c. values,
with coefficients of variation (cv) of 0.73 and 0.75, respectively. In all other regions, cv is above 1 for the GNI p.c. values.
26
The OECD notes that . The throughput of wireless networks continues to improve, but the highest performance over a
wireless connection will always lag behind what is possible over the more controlled environment of a wire.
27
See European Commission Press Release: EUR 57.1 million of regional funds for a major broadband project in Romania,
October 2014, at: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/upload/documents/Commissioner/RO-broadband_21102014_
final.pdf.
28
See http://www.broadbandcommission.org/about/Pages/default.aspx.
29
On a global average, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is significantly lower in mobile markets than in fixed-broadband
markets, thus proving that competition is stronger in mobile markets (ITU, 2014b). In addition, mobile-broadband
services continue to see double-digit growth rates that allow operators to benefit from economies of scale and scope.
These cost savings are partially passed on to customers in terms of lower prices because of the competitive pressure
in mobile markets. This virtuous circle is not as strong in fixed-broadband markets owing to a number of factors, such
as the still limited liberalization of fixed services in several countries, the higher upfront investments required to roll
out independent fixed infrastructure and the slow growth rates in fixed-broadband uptake. As a result, price trends in
fixed-broadband services are not as dynamic as in mobile-broadband services, and this situation will most probably not
change in the short term.
30
In Cuba, Internet access at home is limited to dial-up subscriptions at narrowband speeds. Fixed-broadband plans are
available only for organizations.
31
In 12 African LDCs (out of a total of 26 African LDCs for which data are available) the price of the fixed-broadband plan
exceeds average GNI p.c. levels.
32
Even if mobile-broadband and fixed-broadband subscriptions are not directly comparable, because the former are in
most cases for individual use whereas the latter are usually shared per household/organization, the very low fixedbroadband penetration in most developing countries suggests that the uptake of the service is very limited in the
developing world. This is confirmed by the commercial offers available for fixed-broadband services in several developing
countries, such as Uganda, where the service is advertised as targeting businesses rather than residential customers, and
is priced as a premium service.
33
For instance, Canada made new spectrum available for further development of mobile-broadband services in March
2015, see: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic-gc.nsf/eng/07389.html. Serbia issued LTE licences in February 2015 (see
http://www.ratel.rs/information/news.134.html?article_id=1602), and an LTE licence was issued for the first time in
Pakistan in May 2014, see: http://www.pta.gov.pk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=265&Itemid=135,
http://www.pta.gov.pk/media/lte_1800_spec_090714.pdf.
34
For instance, Algeria started offering 3G services at the end of December 2013, see: http://www.arpt.dz/fr/doc/reg/dec/
2013/DEC_N90_11_12_2013.pdf. Several Eastern Caribbean countries, such as Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, started offering 3G services in 2013 or 2014, see: http://www.ectel.int/
index.php/regulatory-framework/blockquote/policy-on-the-allocation-assignment-of-frequencies-in-the-700-mhz-ban.
35
For example, the main mobile operator in Venezuela, Movilnet, offered prepaid computer-based mobile-broadband
plans only for businesses until 2013, whereas since 2014 prepaid computer-based plans are also available for residential
customers.
In almost all of the countries included in the 2014 price data collection, the cheapest option for a prepaid handset-based
mobile-broadband plan was a data package. In most cases, the cheapest add-on data package with a validity of one
month included 500 MB, but in some countries monthly data packages are offered only for larger data allowances. This
is the case, for example, of Pakistan, where the dominant mobile-cellular operator, Mobilink, offered a monthly data
package including 1GB for less than USD 2 per month, the lowest price worldwide in 2014.
37
Data for mobile-broadband prices have been collected since 2012 through the ITU ICT Price Basket Questionnaire, which
is sent out annually to all ITU Member States/national statistical contacts.
38
In Brazil, for example, the dominant mobile operator, Vivo, offers the SmartVivo 3G plus package, which includes free
local on-net voice traffic and SMS, as well as 60 minutes per month of off-net and to-fixed traffic, for a total cost of USD
42 per month. This is the least expensive postpaid handset-based mobile-broadband plan, with a minimum monthly data
allowance of 500 MB offered by Vivo, excluding promotional offers and limited discounts.
39
In Azerbaijan, for example, the mobile-cellular operator with the largest market share is Azercell, whereas the operator
with the largest number of active mobile-broadband subscriptions is Bakcell. In Gabon, the incumbent operator, Gabon
Telecom, retains the largest market share in the mobile-cellular market, whereas Airtel, the first operator to launch 3G
services in the country, has taken the lead in the mobile-broadband market (source: GSMA Intelligence).
40
In Venezuela, for example, the dominant operator in the handset-based mobile-broadband segment is Movilnet,
whereas in the computer-based mobile-broadband segment the market leader is Digitel.
41
The size of an e-mail, photo, website or Facebook profile varies according to its content and quality. For instance, the
size of a photo can vary from less than 100 kB (low quality) to over 4 MB (high quality). An e-mail containing only text
may require no more than some 0.03 MB, whereas one with a 40-page Word document attached may easily amount
to between 0.5 MB and 2 MB, depending on the images included in the document. Likewise, a webpage with a low
graphical content may consume 0.5 MB, whereas webpages with rich graphical content may take more than 2 MB. Some
webpages, moreover, have optimized versions for mobile use so that they consume less data when accessed from a
mobile phone (e.g. m.facebook.com and m.youtube.com), so data consumption may also depend on the device. For the
examples shown in the box, average values are taken for each Internet application based on estimates from the following
mobile operators: AT&T, Bell, Entel, Everything Everywhere and Vodafone.
42
Monthly data consumption for school courses calculated on the basis of the online courses from the Khan Academy and
their mapping to the curriculum in South Africa (http://numeric.org/grade6-9) and the United States (khanacademy.org/
r/curricularmap).
43
44
Data consumption for the transfer of medical images retrieved from the Mission de prfiguration de la dlgation
la stratgie des systmes dinformation de sant (MPDSSIS, 2010). The report calculates the average size of a medical
image by weighting the different sizes of each medical image (radiography, echography, scanner and MRI) by the
frequency with which they are required. A compression factor of two has been considered.
45
For more information on the recommended speeds for specific applications, see Ooklas article available at: https://
support.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/203845210-What-speeds-do-I-need-for-Skype-Netflix-video-games-etc-.
46
Averages based on 108 developing countries for which 2013 and 2014 data on mobile-broadband prices, mobile-cellular
prices and GNI p.c. were available.
47
Despite having a relative small population of less than 4 million inhabitants, Moldova has three mobile-network
operators offering mobile-broadband services, plus a regional operator also offering the service in a part of the country.
The two main mobile-broadband operators with national coverage are part of strong transnational groups (Orange and
TeliaSonera) and launched LTE networks in 2012, while the third operator is owned by the incumbent fixed-broadband
provider and offers services based on the UMTS technology. The growth in the mobile-broadband market has been
spurred by an increase in competition: the dominant operator Orange saw its market share in the mobile-broadband
market (measured by number of mobile-broadband enabled SIM cards) decrease from 60 per cent at end 2011 to 56 per
cent by end 2014 (source: GSMA Intelligence).
48
Mozambique has three mobile network operators, MCEL, Vodacom and Movitel, all of them currently offering mobilebroadband services. The launch of Movitels operations in 2012, when Mozambique had a mobile-cellular penetration
level of below 35 per cent, greatly contributed to stirring the market, see: http://viettel.com.vn/menu-60-64-94-
Mozambique.html. The increase in competition has not been to the detriment of investment, and this has also been
reflected in the mobile-broadband market, where the incumbent MCELs market share (measured by number of
mobile-broadband enabled SIM cards) shrank from 71 per cent at end 2011 to 42 per cent by end 2014 (source: GSMA
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Intelligence). At the same time, new 3G networks have been deployed in the country, including Movitels HSPA network,
see: http://www.incm.gov.mz/incm-outorga-licencas-para-prestacao-de-servico-de-terceira-geracao.
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49
For the 149 countries included in the comparison, the average GNI p.c. in the European region is one and a half times
that of the Arab States region, twice that of the Asia-Pacific and Americas regions, five times that of the CIS region, and
over ten times that of the Africa region.
50
The number of mobile-broadband enabled SIM cards, as reported by GSMA Intelligence, is used as a proxy to calculate
each operators share in the mobile-broadband market.
51
For more information, see the press release from Metfone, available at: http://www.metfone.com.kh/en/News/
News/VIETTEL-%28CAMBODIA%29-PTE-LTD-%28-METFONE-%29-AND-SOTELCO-LTD-%28-BEELINE-CAMBODIA-%29-
AGRREMENT-TO-LICENCES-ASSETS-TRANSFER-TRANSACTION-e2-80-8b.248.aspx.
52
53
For more information on Smarts LTE coverage, see the companys press release available at: http://www.smart.com.kh/
news/press-release/4g-lte-smart-now-available-all-25-provinces, as well as their coverage map at: http://www.smart.
com.kh/coverage-checker.
54
From 18 to 30 June 2015, SEATEL offered to replace for free the SIM card and mobile phone of their subscribers with
new ones adapted to the new LTE network. Source: SEATEL Group. For more information, see: http://www.seatelgroup.
com/en/gedxd.html.
55
Median income is used as a reference because the The mean value gets inflated by a few households with large
incomes. Most Cambodian households have an income well below the mean value (National Institute of Statistics of
Cambodia, 2014), and the median value is deemed to reflect better the income level of typical Cambodian households.
In the example, for handset-based plans, the median disposable income per capita is considered, assuming that mobile
handsets are for personal use, while the income per household is considered for computer-based plans, assuming that
computer plans are shared per household.
56
Bill shock refers to a bill which the consumer finds unexpectedly excessive; see for example Recommendation ITU-T
D.98, Charging in international mobile roaming service, September 2012, available online at: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-
REC-D.98.
57
International mobile roaming services are not available automatically for all operators and all destinations. They depend
on agreements negotiated bilaterally between operators.
58
59
60
International Roaming BEREC Benchmark Data Report April September 2014, BoR (15) 29, BREC 2015, http://berec.
europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/reports/4922-international-roaming-berec-benchmark-data-
report-april-8211-september-2014.
61
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
62
Data retrieved from the GCC Roaming Working Group (2014) consultation document concerning International Mobile
Roaming (IMR) across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region, 4 September 2014, available online at: http://www.
tra.gov.ae/files/consulation/consultation-International_Mobile_Roaming_IMR_Consultation_Document.pdf.
63
Kenya, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo (Rep. of), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi,
Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. See: http://www.airtel.in/about-bharti/
media-centre/bharti-airtel-news/mobile/airtel-connects-with-africa-to-become-the-first-indian-brand-to-go-truly-global.
64
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http://www.cubictelecom.com/What-We-Do/Our-Technologies.aspx.
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http://www.telecomnorthamerica.com/multiimsiroaminghub/index.php/information/technology.
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5.2
Introduction to IoT
What is IoT?
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization
Sector (ITU-T) has defined IoT as a global
infrastructure for the information society, enabling
advanced services by interconnecting (physical
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interoperable information and communication
technologies.1 IoT refers to the burgeoning
network of physical objects (e.g. devices) which
have an Internet protocol (IP) address for Internet
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occurs between these objects and other devices
and systems that thus become Internet-enabled.
The widespread connectivity of devices allows
them to share data and exercise control through
the Internet, whether directly through their own
IP address and ensuing Internet connection or
indirectly through other telecommunication
protocols, such as WiFi or Bluetooth.
IoT represents a convergence of several factors
that have facilitated its growth: growth of the
Internet and development of Internet-linked radio
frequency identification (RFID), context-aware
computing, wearables, and ubiquitous computing,
which each developed throughout the second half
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5.1. The sampling of the IoT timeline provides
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person-to-person to machine-to-machine
communications (Figure 5.2).
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Table 5.1: Summary of statistics on global data generated and stored in electronic format
Data generated
Indicator
Statistics
Source
Data structure:
Berry (2012)
4 terabytes (TB)
Miller (2012)
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Higginbotham (2010)
25 gigabyte (GB)
Taveira (2014)
Bloomberg (2015)
Data increase in electrical utilities due 680 million smart meters will be installed globally
by 2017. This will lead to 280 petabytes (PB) of data
to IoT-enabled smart grid:
per year.
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every 18 months.
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2013
Cisco (2014)
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2014
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2015
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Cisco (2014)
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Bahrami (2015)
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exabyte (10246) and zettabyte (10247).
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Table 5.2: The size and value of the Internet of Things in numbers
Size of IoT
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Statistics
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Evans (2011)
Gartner (2013)
Cisco (2015b)
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Danova (2013)
Trappeniers (2013)
Turner (2014)
Statistics
Source
Gartner (2013)
Press (2014)
McKinsey (2015)
USD 15 trillion
Press (2014)
IoT by sector:
IDC (2011)
Note: data volumes are expressed in multiples of bytes: kilobyte (1024), megabyte (10242), gigabyte (10243), terabyte (10244), petabyte (10245),
exabyte (10246) and zettabyte (10247).
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Figure 5.6: Typhoid incidence and human mobility from highly infected areas in Uganda during the
January-May 2015 typhoid outbreak
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Natural hazards
Megacities, particularly those along shorelines, are
burgeoning, and these population centres tend to
be particularly susceptible to the effects of land
erosion, hurricanes, flooding, salinization issues,
major land subsidence, etc.
Robust sensor networks are highly capable of
providing some semblance of early warning for
punctuating events and can continuously monitor
changing conditions, which may be indicators of
risk. The hitherto acceptable paradigm of static
data and batch processing may no longer be viable
in this data environment, wherein streaming data
and in-stream processing of continuous data
streams become vital for these densely populated
areas. This migration from static to streaming data
is exemplified by the implementation of smart
grids. Whereas conventional equipment used
for monitoring fault or disturbance events in an
electric grid have been event-driven (i.e. they
only began recording once a disturbance event
had occurred), synchrophasors and other widearea-measurement capabilities constantly record
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Box 5.10: Low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around the Earth at an altitude of between 150 and 2 000 km A
medium Earth orbit (MEO), also known as an intermediate circular orbit (ICO), is an orbit around
the Earth at an altitude of between 2 000 and 36 000 km. These lower orbits (as compared to
geostationary orbits) may cause LEO satellites to be visible from Earth for only an hour or less
before they go over the horizon and out of range. Unlike GEO satellites, LEO satellites do not
appear at a fixed position in the sky. In order for the ground-based antennas that communicate
with these satellites to be as simple as possible, a constellation of LEO satellites is required, with
relaying and passing-off of information from one satellite to another so as to hand over the fixedposition terrestrial signal.
5.4
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recommendations
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Annex 1
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188
Annex 1
2.
3.
Normalization of data
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190
4.
Weights
(indicators)
ICT access
Fixed-telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
International Internet bandwidth per Internet user
Percentage of households with a computer
Percentage of households with Internet access
ICT use
Percentage of individuals using the Internet
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
Active mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
ICT skills
Adult literacy rate
Secondary gross enrolment ratio
Tertiary gross enrolment ratio
Annex 1
Annex Box 1.1: Weights used for indicators and sub-indices included in the IDI
Weights
(subindices)
0.40
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.40
0.33
0.33
0.33
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5.
6.
Sensitivity analysis
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Note: *The ideal value for indicators a, b, c and g was computed by adding two standard deviations to the mean value of the indicator.
**To diminish the effect of the large number of outliers at the high end of the value scale, the data were first transformed to a logarithmic (log) scale.
The ideal value of 962216 bit/s per Internet user is equivalent to 5.98 if transformed to a log scale.
Source: ITU.
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193
Endnotes
194
PCA was used to examine the underlying nature of the data. A more detailed description of the analysis is available in
Annex 1 to ITU (2009).
More information about the indicators is available in ITU (2011b) and the ITU (2014e).
This definition reflects the revisions agreed by the ITU Expert Group on ICT Household Indicators (EGH) at its meeting in
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 4-6 June 2013. See http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/events/brazil2013/Final_report_
EGH.pdf).
See footnote 3.
See footnote 2.
Annex 2
Summary
Since 2009, the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) has been publishing its annual ICT
Development Index (IDI), which benchmarks
countries performance with regard to ICT
infrastructure, use and skills. The JRC analysis,
conducted at ITUs invitation, suggests that the
conceptualized three-level structure of the 2015
IDI is statistically sound in terms of coherence and
balance, with the overall index as well as the three
sub-indices on ICT access, use and skills being
driven by all the underlying components. The IDI
has a very high statistical reliability of 0.96 and
captures the single latent phenomenon underlying
the three main dimensions of the IDI conceptual
framework.
Country rankings are also robust with respect to
methodological changes in the data normalization
method, weighting and aggregation rule (a shift
of less than 3 positions with respect to the
simulated median in 96 per cent of the 167
countries).
The added value of the IDI lies in its ability to
summarize different aspects of ICT development
in a more efficient and parsimonious manner
than is possible with a selection of 11 indicators
taken separately. In fact, for between 26 and
52 per cent of the 167 countries included this
year, the IDI ranking and any of the three subindex rankings (access, use and skills) differ by
ten positions or more. This is a desired outcome
because it evidences the added value of the IDI
as a benchmarking tool, inasmuch as it helps to
highlight aspects of ICT development that do
not emerge directly by looking into ICT access,
ICT use and ICT skills separately. At the same
time, this result also points to the value of taking
due account of the individual ICT dimensions
and indicators on their own merit. In so doing,
country-specific strengths and bottlenecks in ICT
development can be identified and used as an
input for evidence-based policy-making.
195
Data checks
The IDI framework builds on three dimensions, or
sub-indices, which are aggregated over 11 selected
indicators. A complete matrix of 11 indicators,
referring to 2014 data for 167 countries, are
included in the IDI. These data have been collected
annually by ITU through a questionnaire sent to
its Member States. Where country data are not
available, ITU estimates the missing data using
appropriate statistical techniques. The JRC analysis
based on the values for skewness and kurtosis4
suggests that only two indicators international
Internet bandwidth and fixed-broadband
subscriptions have outlier values that could
bias the calculation of the aggregate scores and
interpretation of the correlation structure. ITU
has opted to take the logarithm of international
Internet bandwidth and to cap fixed-broadband
subscriptions at 60, which is considered to be
an ideal value and equal to the maximum value
achieved in many developed countries.
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Without log
With log
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0.29
0.63
0.63
0.56
0.65
0.54
0.76
0.74
0.67
Annex 2
Annex Table 2.1: Impact of log transform of the international Internet bandwidth indicator
Note: Numbers represent the Pearson correlation coefficient (excluding outliers) between the international Internet bandwidth per Internet user
indicator (with/without log transformation) and any of the four indicators in the ICT access dimension.
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
Annex Table 2.2: Statistical coherence in the 2015 IDI Principal components analysis and reliability
analysis
ICT Development Index
(& sub-indices)
ICT Development Index
(3 sub-indices)
ICT access sub-index
(5 indicators)
ICT use sub-index
(3 indicators)
ICT skills sub-index
(3 indicators)
Variance
explained
c-alpha
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0.95
0.89
0.92
0.97
78.2
0.91
0.89
0.92
0.91
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0.88
0.91
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0.71
0.85
0.83
#1
0.86
#5
0.86
Note: Variance explained shows the amount of total variance explained by the first principal component across the three ICT sub-indices, or the
indicators in the case of the ICT sub-indices. c-alpha (or Cronbach-alpha) is a measure of statistical reliability (values greater than 0.7 are recommended for good reliability).
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
197
ICT access
ICT use
ICT skills
0.877
0.819
0.765
0.722
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0.608
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access.
variation of ICT access scores and on the overall
IDI.
owing
to the changing
pattern of
households
with a computer
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ICT
(use of smartphones
to are
andhousehold
householdsaccess
with Internet
access at home
access
the
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and
increase
in
the
number
very high (0.93), suggesting a relative dominance
of countries
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indicatorsthe
in the
of the
surveys,
it is
possible
a correlation
may
ICT access
scores.
Thisthat
cansuch
be explained
by the
cease
to exist
over
the coming
years.
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undesirably
high
correlation
(0.98)
between
recommendation
for next
years release
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has persisted
over of
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reassess/revisit
the correlation
weights assigned
these
five
with a similar
havingtobeen
two
indicators.
found
in 2010, 2012 and 2013. On statistical
grounds, these indicators would need to be
Within
the
ICTthe
useweight
sub-index,
threeindicators
indicators
assigned
half
of theallother
are
important,
as reflected
in their
equal
in order
to reduce
their undue
impact
on weights,
the
although
theICT
indicator
on individuals
using
the
variation of
access scores
and on the
overall
IDI. However,
owing
to the
changingthan
pattern
Internet
is slightly
more
important
the of
ICT household
access (use of smartphones
to and
other
two, on fixed-broadband
subscriptions
access the Internet)subscriptions
and increase(0.91
in theasnumber
mobile-broadband
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collectingwithin
the data
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0.82-0.84).
the from
ICT skills
subsurveys,
is possible
that are
suchimportant,
a correlation
index,
allitthree
indicators
withmay
the
IDI sub-index
Weights
/d
/d
/d
IDI indicators
Annex 2
Annex Table 2.4: Importance measures (variance-based) for the IDI components
Weights
&
D
///
W
W/
W/
&
^
d
Note: Numbers represent the kernel estimates of the Pearson correlation ratio, as in Paruolo et al., 2013. (*) Sub-factors that make a much lower/
higher contribution to the variance of the relevant dimension scores than the equal weighting expectation are marked with an asterisk.
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
199
Annex Table 2.5: Added value of the IDI vis--vis its main components
IDI
ICT access
ICT use
ICT skills
IDI
ICT access
ICT use
ICT skills
26%
26%
52%
0.984
50%
62%
0.984
0.953
69%
0.903
0.857
0.860
-
Note: Numbers above the diagonal: Spearman rank correlation coefficients; numbers below the diagonal: percentage of countries (out of 167) that
shift +10 positions or more between the rankings.
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
Alternative
Arithmetic average
Geometric average
Distribution for
uncertainty analysis
ICT access
0.4
U[0.30, 0.50]
ICT use
0.4
U[0.30, 0.50]
ICT skills
0.2
U[0.15, 0.25]
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
200
Annex 2
Annex Figure 2.1: Uncertainty analysis of the IDI (ranks vs median rank, 90 per cent intervals)
1
11
Median rank
21
IDI rank
31
41
51
61
71
81
91
101
Ukraine
Grenada
111
121
131
141
Gabon
151
161
171
Countries
Note: Countries are ordered from high to low levels of ICT development. Median ranks and intervals are calculated over 2000 simulated scenarios
combining random weights for the three ICT dimensions (25per cent above/below the reference value), and geometric versus arithmetic average at
the dimension level. Countries with wide intervals (more than 15 positions) are flagged.
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
201
Annex Table 2.7: IDI country ranks and 90 per cent intervals
Countries
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Congo (Rep.)
Costa Rica
Cte dIvoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Rep.
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong, China
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran (I.R.)
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea (Rep.)
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
IDI rank
156
94
113
28
140
62
52
76
13
25
67
27
144
29
36
21
116
151
119
107
77
111
61
71
50
159
130
147
23
96
167
55
82
75
160
141
57
137
42
129
53
34
2
148
80
103
90
100
106
146
166
20
165
101
12
17
133
135
78
14
109
39
83
121
162
114
120
9
48
3
131
108
91
22
35
38
105
11
92
58
124
1
46
97
90% interval
[156, 158]
[87, 95]
[113, 117]
[27, 30]
[132, 142]
[62, 64]
[51, 55]
[74, 79]
[13, 13]
[24, 27]
[63, 67]
[24, 30]
[143, 147]
[28, 30]
[33, 40]
[21, 21]
[114, 117]
[150, 157]
[112, 121]
[107, 108]
[74, 79]
[109, 112]
[58, 63]
[69, 79]
[50, 50]
[152, 159]
[129, 136]
[145, 153]
[23, 25]
[92, 97]
[166, 167]
[54, 56]
[77, 84]
[73, 77]
[159, 161]
[141, 147]
[57, 58]
[130, 139]
[41, 42]
[125, 137]
[52, 54]
[33, 36]
[1, 3]
[143, 151]
[80, 83]
[102, 106]
[90, 94]
[99, 101]
[103, 106]
[143, 147]
[166, 167]
[17, 20]
[162, 165]
[100, 101]
[11, 14]
[15, 20]
[130, 151]
[133, 137]
[76, 82]
[12, 18]
[106, 109]
[37, 46]
[80, 96]
[120, 125]
[160, 165]
[114, 116]
[119, 123]
[7, 12]
[46, 48]
[2, 3]
[130, 135]
[108, 111]
[89, 102]
[22, 22]
[34, 37]
[37, 39]
[103, 105]
[10, 11]
[91, 98]
[57, 59]
[120, 124]
[1, 2]
[42, 48]
[92, 99]
Countries
Lao P.D.R.
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao, China
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tanzania
TFYR Macedonia
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Zambia
Zimbabwe
IDI rank
138
37
56
128
155
40
6
24
164
163
64
81
145
30
150
73
95
66
18
84
65
99
158
142
118
136
8
16
123
134
10
54
143
89
112
104
98
44
43
31
59
45
154
122
41
132
51
87
19
47
33
139
88
161
26
115
63
86
68
126
85
5
7
117
157
60
74
152
110
70
93
69
149
79
32
4
15
49
125
72
102
153
127
90% interval
[137, 141]
[34, 39]
[51, 56]
[127, 129]
[154, 155]
[35, 41]
[5, 10]
[23, 25]
[164, 164]
[162, 163]
[62, 65]
[78, 84]
[141, 149]
[27, 32]
[140, 153]
[72, 76]
[88, 95]
[66, 67]
[16, 19]
[82, 87]
[63, 66]
[95, 99]
[156, 160]
[140, 149]
[114, 118]
[131, 136]
[6, 9]
[15, 19]
[122, 133]
[126, 136]
[6, 11]
[52, 56]
[141, 146]
[87, 90]
[110, 113]
[101, 107]
[91, 99]
[43, 45]
[43, 47]
[30, 31]
[59, 61]
[44, 46]
[144, 154]
[122, 127]
[37, 41]
[128, 133]
[51, 54]
[83, 89]
[16, 20]
[44, 48]
[32, 39]
[138, 140]
[84, 89]
[155, 163]
[25, 27]
[114, 118]
[61, 67]
[81, 86]
[68, 68]
[121, 127]
[75, 87]
[5, 6]
[6, 8]
[116, 122]
[156, 162]
[59, 61]
[71, 78]
[150, 156]
[110, 111]
[69, 71]
[86, 94]
[69, 71]
[138, 150]
[74, 95]
[31, 35]
[4, 4]
[14, 17]
[49, 49]
[124, 126]
[70, 73]
[99, 104]
[149, 153]
[119, 128]
Note: Countries are presented in alphabetical order. 90 per cent intervals are calculated over 2000 simulated scenarios combining random weights for
the three ICT dimensions (25 per cent above/below the reference value), and geometric versus arithmetic average at the dimension level.
Source: Saisana and Domnguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre; IDI 2015.
202
Conclusions
ITU invited JRC to delve into the statistical
properties of the 2015 IDI in order to assess the
transparency and reliability of the results and
enable academics and policy-makers to derive
more accurate and meaningful conclusions. ITUs
Annex 2
The choice of aggregation function at the subindex level is the main driver of the variation in
country ranks. Following best practices in the
relevant literature and choosing the average
absolute shift in rank as our robustness metric12,
we found that the aggregation function choice
accounts for 95 per cent of the sample variance,
while the dimensions weights choice accounts for
only 5 per cent. This result suggests that, should
the methodological choices behind IDI 2015
stimulate further discussion, then this should focus
more on the aggregation formula for the three ICT
dimensions and much less on their weights.
203
204
This was prepared by Michaela Saisana and Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro, from European Commission, Joint Research
Centre (JRC), Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit, based in Italy.
The JRC analysis was based on the recommendations of the OECD/EC JRC (2008) Handbook on Composite Indicators,
and on more recent academic research from JRC. The JRC auditing studies of composite indicators are available at
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/coin.
Skewness greater than 2 and kurtosis greater than 3.5; Groeneveld and Meeden (1984) set the criteria for absolute
skewness above 1 and kurtosis above 3.5. The skewness criterion was relaxed to above 2 to account for the small
sample (167 countries).
Nunnally (1978).
10
Munda (2008).
11
In the geometric average, indicators are multiplied as opposed to summed in the arithmetic average. Indicator weights
appear as exponents in the multiplication.
12
Annex 2
Endnotes
205
206
Annex 3
207
208
Annex 3
209
Annex Table 3.1: OECD mobile-cellular low-user call distribution (2009 methodology):
To fixed
Call distribution (%)
Calls
Peak
Off-peak
Weekend
Duration (minutes per call)
Duration (total minutes of calls)
Peak
Off-peak
Weekend
Calls
SMS
17.0
5.2
2.4
1.5
1.3
2.0
10.4
4.8
3.0
2.6
On-net
Off-net
56.0
26.0
16.9
7.9
7.8
3.6
4.9
2.3
4.2
2.0
1.6
1.7
27.0
13.4
12.4
6.2
7.8
3.9
6.8
3.4
30 calls per month
100 SMS per month (50 on-net, 50 off-net)
TOTAL
Call distribution
by time of day (%)
100.0
30.0
13.8
8.7
7.5
100.0
50.9
23.4
14.8
12.7
N/A
46.0
29.0
25.0
46.0
29.0
25.0
210
Mobile-broadband prices
In 2012, for the first time, ITU collected mobilebroadband prices through its annual ICT Price
Basket Questionnaire.6 The collection of mobilebroadband price data from ITU Member States
was agreed upon by EGTI7 in 2012, and revised
by it in 2013 in light of the lessons learned from
the first data collection exercise. The revised
methodology was endorsed by the eleventh World
Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium held
in December 2013 in Mexico City, and was applied
in the 2014 data collection.
To capture the price of different data packages,
covering prepaid and postpaid services, and
supported by different devices (handset and
computer), mobile-broadband prices were
collected for two different data thresholds, based
on a set of rules (see AnnexBox 3.4).
For plans that were limited in terms of validity
(less than 30 days), the price of the additional days
was calculated and added to the base package in
order to obtain the final price. Two possibilities
exist, depending on the operator, for extending
a plan that is limited in terms of data allowance
(or validity). The customer either (i) continues to
use the service and pays an excess usage charge
for additional data,8 or (ii) purchases an additional
(add-on) package. Thus, for some countries,
Annex 3
211
212
Annex 3
Annex Box 3.3: Rules applied in collecting fixed-broadband Internet prices (continued)
8. The same price plans are used for collecting all the data specified. For example, if Plan A is
selected for the fixed-broadband service, according to the above criteria, the elements in
Plan A apply to the monthly subscription, price of the excess charge, volume of data that can
be downloaded, etc.
9. Prices are collected for regular (non-promotional) plans and do not include promotional
offers or limited or restricted discounts (for example, only to students, or to pre-existing
customers, etc.).
10. With convergence, operators are increasingly providing multiple (bundled) services such as
voice telephony, Internet access and television reception over their networks. They often
bundle these offers into a single subscription. This can present a challenge for price-data
collection, since it may not be possible to isolate the prices for a given service. Prices for a
specific service (i.e. unbundled) are used; if this is not possible, then the additional services
that are included in the price plan are specified in a note.
11. The cost of a fixed-telephone line is excluded if it can also be used for other services.
Source: ITU.
213
214
Annex 3
215
Endnotes
216
EGTI was created in May 2009 with the mandate to revise the list of ITU supply-side indicators (i.e. data collected from
operators), as well as to discuss outstanding methodological issues and new indicators. It is open to all ITU members
and experts in the field of ICT statistics and data collection. EGTI works through an online discussion forum (http://www.
itu.int/ITU-D/ict/ExpertGroup/default.asp) and face-to-face meetings, and reports to the World Telecommunication/ICT
Indicators Symposium (WTIS).
In some cases, it is not clear whether taxes are included or not and it was not possible to obtain this information from
country contacts or operators; in such cases, the advertised price is used.
On-net refers to a call made to the same mobile network, while off-net and fixed-line refer to calls made to other
(competing) mobile networks and to a fixed-telephone line, respectively.
On-net refers to a call made to the same mobile network, while off-net and fixed-line refer to calls made to other
(competing) mobile networks and to a fixed-telephone line, respectively.
Data for fixed-telephone, mobile-cellular and fixed-broadband have been collected since 2008 through the ITU ICT Price
Basket Questionnaire, which is sent out annually to all ITU Member States/national statistical contacts.
EGTI was created in May 2009 with the mandate to revise the list of ITU supply-side indicators (i.e. data collected from
operators), as well as to discuss outstanding methodological issues and new indicators. EGTI is open to all ITU members
and experts in the field of ICT statistics and data collection. It works through an online discussion forum (http://www.itu.
int/ITU-D/ict/ExpertGroup/default.asp) and face-to-face meetings. EGTI reports to the World Telecommunication/ICT
Indicators Symposium (WTIS).
Some operators throttle speeds after the data allowance included in the base package has been reached. Customers
can then pay an excess usage charge in order to continue to have full-speed connections. In some cases, even throttled
speeds are still considered broadband (i.e. equal to or greater than 256 kbit/s, according to ITUs definition).
These rules were presented to EGTI in September 2012. In the 2013 revision, EGTI agreed that ITU should collect prepaid
and postpaid prices, for both handset- and computerbased services, with the following volume allowances: 1 GB for
computerbased and 500 MB for handsetbased usage. The EGTI proposals to measure mobile-broadband prices were
endorsed by the eleventh World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium held in December 2013 in Mexico City.
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217
Access indicators
Economy
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
International Internet
bandwidth
Bit/s per Internet user
2014
2010
2014
2010
2014
2010
2014
2010
0.3
45.8
74.9
1761
6942
1.9
2.7
1.5
Albania
10.6
Algeria
7.9
Andorra
49.0
Angola
1.4
Antigua &
Barbuda
41.6
Argentina
24.6
Armenia
Australia
7.8
85.5
105.5
11992
26117
7.7
88.4
93.3
7771
12460
47.7
84.1
82.6
36447
78057
48.1
63.5
614
4250
1.3
35.6
192.6
120.0
29269
120321
22.6
141.4
158.7
31373
48065
20.0
18.9
130.4
115.9
14236
44534
41110
75069
39584
79636
47.4
38.9
100.4
131.2
10 Austria
40.4
38.3
145.7
151.9
11 Azerbaijan
16.6
18.9
100.1
110.9
9083
32219
12 Bahrain
18.2
21.2
125.2
173.3
14528
49054
0.7
44.9
75.9
1431
5925
52.9
124.8
106.8
21694
113985
108.9
122.5
0.8
14 Barbados
49.0
15 Belarus
43.6
16 Belgium
42.4
42.1
17 Belize
9.8
6.7
18 Benin
1.4
1.8
19 Bhutan
3.7
20 Bolivia
8.4
22 Botswana
48.5
7.0
21.6
24 Brunei
Darussalam
19.9
25 Bulgaria
29.3
8.1
8.3
43.0
138277
2148
2860
56.7
155.1
27625
9374
41.9
75.7
363
1796
14.7
92.3
95.8
113.1
19.0
53.5
2356
4995
10212
34989
246
384
117
185
17.8
67.0
143.8
12657
45329
1.2
82.2
106.2
7807
5163
36.7
113.6
11.2
8.9
93.7
96.3
122.6
130.0
47.1
33.3
44 Djibouti
2.2
2.5
115.7
24.3
73102
28.4
733
19099
43 Denmark
12.3
63.2
6
96
108.1
48 Egypt
133.3
12330
90.4
17.6
13.9
39.8
115.8
129244
3179
47 Ecuador
24.5
54738
37.4
10.1
121.8
0.4
22.4
21.8
83.0
76.3
0.0
41 Cyprus
46 Dominican
Rep.
75.7
17.9
42 Czech Republic
45 Dominica
139.0
68091
0.2
16437
19.2
10.3
6559
71.7
39 Croatia
36.7
11.6
40 Cuba
167.3
4
0.7
46.6
43003
1.5
18612
137.7
14.8
22.7
91.3
138.0
53.9
38 Cte dIvoire
80.9
30 Cape Verde
15502
29 Canada
0.3
2546
3728
25.3
36 Congo (Rep.)
1590
68720
4.6
0.1
2839
42966
2.8
35 Congo (Dem.
Rep.)
96.3
100.9
41829
2090
82.1
70.7
120.0
9193
12602
263915
23551
2.6
15.5
101.7
142536
2.5
21.6
50.7
74.4
22199
109676
110.1
28 Cameroon
34 Colombia
62.9
108.6
27 Cambodia
33 China
114.3
0.4
11.4
0.9
20.2
111.1
55.0
21.8
26 Burkina Faso
31 Chad
22.2
32 Chile
3.1
26.0
23 Brazil
37 Costa Rica
Percentage of
households
with Internet
0.1
Afghanistan
21 Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Percentage of
households
with computer
2010
1
13 Bangladesh
218
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
22.5
19.9
148.3
104.4
22420
58034
219
462
51638
75055
68842
116806
142137
341706
15439
8955
126.0
32.4
63816
109954
11.6
88.8
78.9
4451
24903
15.3
98.5
103.9
7950
48329
7.6
90.5
114.3
5370
9302
127.5
15.6
20.0
83.2
82.6
48.9
56.1
47.0
62.1
20.0
51.5
76.2
87.0
3.0
6.9
61.4
70.0
81.1
30.3
83.7
94.6
83.8
31.0
27.1
2.0
4.8
22.8
34.9
8.9
9.2
79.6
14.8
92.0
34.9
2.1
7.2
4.3
20.4
46.8
32.2
60.3
44.5
4.9
41.3
52.3
1.8
7.2
60.0
3.4
64.1
13.0
16.4
31.3
60.5
12.9
78.5
18.0
26.2
88.0
45.1
70.5
31.2
57.1
72.7
82.8
21.0
6.0
17.0
6.0
12.1
79.2
8.3
1.9
6.5
86.6
78.4
7.1
24.8
35.0
53.9
0.9
1.9
24.1
55.1
1.1
12.2
60.5
3.5
10.2
78.0
93.1
7.1
21.1
37.0
11.5
25.3
4.1
28.0
68.6
86.1
68.4
53.7
38.0
0.7
1.9
2.0
56.5
47.4
0.6
2.7
23.7
7.0
4
19.3
56.7
1.6
48.0
33.1
2.0
50.0
27.1
26.3
23.0
65.0
6.5
38.0
3.5
38.9
27.0
55.3
54.6
95.0
30.0
81.0
81.0
6.1
86.9
52.0
1.2
74.0
46.6
13.6
70.1
1.9
3.5
52.0
46.7
0.7
81.6
1.4
2.9
35.4
26.1
87.6
1.1
9.6
72.9
74.0
10.6
82.7
4.6
13.6
8.6
37.4
57.9
40.0
52.0
35.1
74.1
45.0
67.2
26.6
25.9
34.0
21.9
33.7
59.9
76.7
2.3
5.7
51.7
40.8
85.6
13.7
10.0
9.9
28.2
7.1
23.5
2014
32.0
36.8
2010
49 El Salvador
16.1
50 Equatorial
Guinea
1.9
51 Eritrea
0.9
52 Estonia
37.1
53 Ethiopia
15.1
55 Finland
23.3
56 France
64.2
57 Gabon
2.0
58 Gambia
2.9
59 Georgia
60 Germany
27.1
10.4
2.9
69 Hungary
29.7
70 Iceland
60.9
10.8
19.9
61.1
17.0
73 Iran (I.R.)
34.7
74 Ireland
46.5
75 Israel
45.9
76 Italy
37.2
2.1
33.7
50.1
58.9
83 Kuwait
17.4
84 Kyrgyzstan
9.2
85 Lao P.D.R.
1.6
10
11
26.1
59.5
95 Malaysia
16.3
96 Maldives
8.7
97 Mali
0.8
98 Malta
58.3
99 Mauritania
100 Mauritius
2.0
31.5
53.6
1.3
29.8
42.7
63.5
71.3
70.5
124.7
93.5
195.7
239.3
119.9
118.1
107.2
111.1
154.8
14
15
96.8
74.5
10
90
3602
31694
99513
123838
251661
11
3984
8073
2573
2674
6126
9994
5916
21765
777030
3345122
9985
37027
297960
519869
13
5917
5677
2473
6225
2264
6056
64090
160971
102.9
16
120.2
147.8
121.9
168.6
61.0
73.8
104.8
115.5
133.0
218.4
98.9
134.5
62.6
67.0
110.3
124.2
66.0
17
49.2
39.7
73.4
159.4
147.0
143.1
148.4
16
209.9
322.6
36.6
38.2
17
20.8
30.5
101.9
119.7
148.8
151.8
189.4
53.2
149.0
107.3
127.0
18
76.9
96.8
18
10546
94.2
132.2
48637
7405
7874
9306
51489
3529
25200
11812
43358
43553
50096
1426
8166
16
13.0
69.2
26.8
76.4
5.7
1117
2848
33559
93683
1318
23992
335
2410
604
6306
49203
125454
2521959
32196
728
267
2034
4237
88921
11495
27173
33447
69077
2771
1879
464099
1178759
17
1939
1454
9723
32990
18.0
82.5
36.7
82.8
8.3
85.7
90.6
39.9
18.2
7.9
53.4
62.7
14.2
20.9
17.5
26.9
77.9
83.7
93.0
98.1
10.8
35.0
59.2
2.8
55.5
73.1
37.7
92.0
17.8
4.6
21.4
83.3
81.3
73.5
44.0
96.8
3.6
59.8
81.1
2.5
60.6
75.5
82.2
51.3
4.7
96.5
29.1
75.1
15.3
44.7
82.2
72.6
97.5
71.5
25.7
60.0
58.8
98.5
12.0
73.4
16.9
75.4
5.2
68.4
6.5
66.0
2.5
95.6
84.3
4.7
5.0
6.2
65.5
55.6
23.5
44.5
70.4
80.7
29.0
47.5
1.2
4.4
19.6
8.2
3.0
82.4
1.3
66.5
65.9
1.9
90.3
4.5
24.2
0.9
96.3
5.2
32.6
50.7
2.2
15.0
3.4
81.0
68.1
29.0
49.9
10.5
65.6
6.3
87.8
6.9
41.0
21.6
12.3
89.5
14.0
51.1
9.7
68.1
32.5
17.6
8.5
4.2
89.8
60.5
59.0
61.8
78.3
83.0
6.8
1.4
76.4
82.4
90.2
83.0
2.9
1.3
74.0
1.1
15.7
61.5
5.0
71.7
6.9
4.7
64.7
29.0
28.0
1.5
5.0
84.0
59.5
62.8
46.4
6.5
82.9
16.6
52.5
46.7
6.1
82.5
22.7
6.0
76.6
81.8
3.8
13.0
35.2
8.5
80.5
76.8
6.1
46.0
73.6
21.6
66.4
23.3
1.1
2.5
12.9
83.4
18.8
39.4
1.9
2014
0.7
45.8
1
64.8
67.8
12.5
91.9
7.6
76.5
7.0
2.8
82.0
2.3
1.4
6887708
0.8
14210
1
88.3
1.0
19
106.6
102.6
14.6
6.1
126.5
126.0
1.1
116.5
145990
15730
0.2
0.4
115.0
70966
73449
15
0.1
114.8
116.1
14
89 Liberia
0.7
71.9
110.6
21177
92497
16
1.0
120.4
98409
19.4
93 Madagascar
13
10928
7986
94 Malawi
124.9
106.5
19657
1093
61574
1.9
26.7
90.6
12
6888
19.3
49.6
119.6
154.2
88 Lesotho
18
210.4
88.0
121.5
87 Lebanon
31.5
103.5
122.8
5
15
53.6
221660
14
92 Macao, China
218744
71626
100.4
104.3
19.0
91 Luxembourg
107204
91.4
105.2
13.4
17
13946
19.5
5002
7553
87.8
25.5
5102
9
31.6
72.6
13
86 Latvia
24.6
28665
126.2
15
90 Lithuania
1391
23903
87.8
14.2
2.4
857
160.7
62.4
0.4
7.9
1452
5.0
4094
12
9.1
0.9
82 Korea (Rep.)
37.1
14
7.5
25.5
43.2
139.7
39.0
13
9.6
51.5
11.7
66.4
156.3
30.3
8.0
11
6.4
51.5
2010
25.2
98.8
0.3
2014
13.3
10
7.9
26.9
2.9
72 Indonesia
46.9
2010
81.1
1.0
2014
50309
1.0
8.8
61.9
81 Kenya
60.0
2010
2889
6.4
9
Percentage of
households
with Internet
127.3
3.2
Percentage of
households
with computer
144.0
11.7
0.3
19.1
68 Hong Kong,
China
80 Kazakhstan
8.4
2014
8
57.4
0.8
11
International Internet
bandwidth
Bit/s per Internet user
1.0
56.9
64 Guatemala
79 Jordan
31.7
25.4
63 Grenada
78 Japan
1.1
77 Jamaica
1.9
63.7
53.1
71 India
123.8
25.3
62 Greece
67 Honduras
2010
14.9
12
61 Ghana
65 Guinea-Bissau
2014
1.0
54 Fiji
66 Guyana
10
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
Annex 4
Economy
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
6.7
1.6
6.2
219
Economy
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
2010
2014
2010
2014
101 Mexico
16.9
17.0
77.5
82.5
102 Moldova
32.5
103 Monaco
116.5
104 Mongolia
7.1
105 Montenegro
27.5
106 Morocco
11.8
107 Mozambique
0.4
108 Myanmar
0.9
109 Namibia
7.2
110 Nepal
3.1
111 Netherlands
43.5
43.0
113 Nicaragua
4.4
114 Nigeria
0.7
115 Norway
33.7
116 Oman
10.1
117 Pakistan
3.5
118 Panama
14.7
119 Paraguay
5.6
120 Peru
121 Philippines
10.8
20.1
123 Portugal
42.4
124 Qatar
15.4
125 Romania
20.6
126 Russian
Federation
31.3
127 Rwanda
0.4
128 Samoa
4.3
2.6
131 Serbia
39.3
132 Seychelles
24.2
133 Singapore
39.3
134 Slovakia
20.2
135 Slovenia
44.3
136 Solomon
Islands
1.6
9.4
0.0
139 Spain
43.7
17.2
37.8
21.1
19.9
1.3
145 Suriname
16.2
146 Sweden
50.5
147 Switzerland
62.7
148 Syria
18.9
149 Tanzania
0.4
35.2
133.0
21
113.8
82.5
20
115.4
20
107.8
21
5.5
20
68.1
22
0.1
54.7
77.8
21
114.5
116.5
24
164.3
157.8
40.6
15.0
9.9
13.2
28668
1701
8162
1879
3109
116.4
21
154312
281063
112.1
22
34143
95081
114.6
23
8588
23025
2348
3150
109459
203935
5582
33724
57.3
73.3
180.7
158.1
25
3
102.9
89.0
111.2
122.9
156.4
26
4332
5684
16950
72678
8295
12624
8319
36381
10702
27688
37806
90356
115.3
111.8
27
18.4
125.0
24
145.8
20295
21.3
111.4
25
105.9
28
50405
153807
27.7
23
165.5
26
155.1
17812
29860
1895
8517
3840
6676
11095
30548
5212
8349
6.1
2.1
24
22.7
16.8
1.3
8.1
32.7
64.0
48.4
55.5
189.2
179.6
64.4
98.8
125.3
27
122.1
128.9
28
162.2
145.4
29
158.1
109.0
116.9
103.3
112.1
21.9
65.8
97.9
616531
12155
11462
55634
121137
3799
4277
111.3
107.8
30
55944
111545
83.6
103.2
3332
12651
152.8
139.8
81863
139540
111.7
102.6
52075
128157
120.6
105.2
71281
148285
1.1
172404
27
12.5
149.7
28945
149542
40.6
15.6
30
41.5
72.2
99.3
170.6
31
1829
2499
3099
50458
39.7
117.2
127.8
236853
527447
53.6
28
123.2
140.5
14
152211
352243
18.1
54.3
70.9
1287
4048
46.7
62.8
2652
6081
0.3
37.0
22.3
34.2
1.3
52.4
35.8
52.5
69.6
11.5
4.2
79.5
7.6
54.3
27.9
8.2
79.8
87.0
55.0
13.0
35.5
20.3
13.8
31.9
32.3
13.0
77.7
63.4
97.2
81.8
71.0
41.3
21.1
10.0
54.4
20.5
4.2
37.8
61.8
84.0
72.2
4.0
12.3
38.6
41.6
13.2
24.6
23.5
74.8
98.0
69.9
21.9
26.9
64.9
60.5
3.8
88.0
82.0
10
88.0
80.5
67.5
78.4
17.8
16.6
35.8
89.5
93.4
3.8
3.0
5.9
26.5
9.6
15.3
74.4
62.8
3
38.9
58.5
15.0
32.2
14.4
11
20.5
88.3
89.6
80.7
12
90.6
35.2
40.9
2.1
37.3
40.3
5.6
56.5
87.6
47.6
76.8
59.1
68.9
2.9
10.1
66.5
38.0
51.8
68.1
74.0
93.1
55.0
9.0
2.6
86.2
29.0
40.4
40.2
28.1
83.7
8.5
26.1
10.0
11.6
55.1
12.6
6.1
64.0
95.8
79.8
79.8
94.0
68.7
65.6
18.3
5.6
1.3
11.6
17.3
42.2
3.4
3.0
53.7
63.8
6.2
9.5
69.4
56.6
5.7
3.8
50.4
89.8
70.5
74.7
3.8
15.9
50.9
6.1
80.0
5.7
29.0
90.9
38.2
57.3
76.8
1.3
2.1
95.4
47.9
7.0
84.0
59.5
1.0
13.6
47.5
2.4
9.1
19.3
34.4
8
35.9
11.1
9.7
69.0
25.5
90.9
97.6
8.2
22.6
7.7
16.5
92.0
3.4
2014
67.1
7.3
34.7
54.7
4.9
73.5
38.0
112372
4
26
27
4961
67473
202453
14.4
17.9
45597
218876
3
29
25
21.9
141734
24.5
0.0
34.9
7755
7702
99.5
37.1
1281
105.6
35.5
10768
91.7
37.3
77016
4558
23
13.4
30104
1
0.4
89976
34.3
19
43.2
227447
62121
89.5
3.0
3.1
47044
19
49.5
5.4
25
152362
69.7
2.6
81450
1.1
22
30.1
1.0
22
22.2
131.7
24
2010
38.3
163.0
9.6
23
2014
29.8
101.1
22.7
2010
188.7
7.4
2014
20926
88.5
42.4
108.0
Percentage of
households
with Internet
2010
105.1
7.8
20
19
Percentage of
households
with computer
7039
18
92.5
0.3
71.4
International Internet
bandwidth
Bit/s per Internet user
63.5
7.9
26.5
15.3
130 Senegal
144 Sudan
3.6
122 Poland
220
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
4.1
2010
150 TFYR
Macedonia
19.7
151 Thailand
10.3
152 Togo
1.0
153 Tonga
29.8
22.1
155 Tunisia
12.1
156 Turkey
22.5
157 Uganda
1.0
158 Ukraine
28.1
17.5
160 United
Kingdom
53.8
47.9
162 Uruguay
28.5
163 Vanuatu
3.0
164 Venezuela
24.4
16.1
Mobile-cellular
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
2014
26
18.6
8.5
27
28
108.0
0.9
41.3
11.3
21.4
144.4
2010
2014
16498
41812
12791
46826
7337
6523
69.0
52.2
64.3
3002
11817
142.6
147.3
29808
48903
13086
25972
13577
42911
31
104.5
128.5
16.5
85.6
94.8
0.8
37.7
52.4
849
4002
24.6
117.1
144.1
14912
40704
22.3
29
129.4
178.1
18309
44503
52.4
123.6
123.6
132685
429830
131.6
31.7
25.3
32
91.3
2.2
32
40.1
2014
109.1
8.5
2010
102.4
International Internet
bandwidth
Bit/s per Internet user
98.4
33
71.9
2
6.0
160.8
40206
33
60.4
96.0
99.0
125.3
147.1
24115
Percentage of
households
with computer
2010
60807
2804
2471
6450
14398
4925
20749
2014
70.1
46.1
22.8
10
53.1
33.9
11.4
3.2
1.0
64.0
29.0
23.3
34.0
19.1
44.2
25.2
33.1
11.4
56.0
41.6
11
52.4
22.2
5.8
76.0
82.6
53.4
90.8
67.4
75.5
33.5
81.5
8.7
19.4
79.6
14.2
43.7
3.3
50.0
28.8
60.2
43.0
90.1
89.9
57.4
6.2
79.6
5.4
20.5
35.7
71.1
22.0
33.8
65.0
68.3
1.9
87.9
2014
10.0
2.2
2010
2.1
70970
5
Percentage of
households
with Internet
53.6
Annex 4
Economy
Fixed-telephone
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
28.8
14.3
34.2
12.5
13
18.6
166 Zambia
0.9
0.8
41.2
67.3
378
4223
3.7
6.6
3.1
6.9
167 Zimbabwe
2.9
2.3
58.9
80.8
289
3939
5.3
7.6
4.0
5.8
221
Use indicators
Economy
2010
1
222
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
Percentage of individuals
using the Internet
Afghanistan
4.0
Albania
45.0
Algeria
12.5
Andorra
81.0
Angola
10.0
47.0
Argentina
45.0
Armenia
25.0
2014
6.4
60.1
18.1
21.3
64.7
2.4
0.1
46.3
10.0
Australia
76.0
84.6
24.6
Austria
75.2
81.0
24.4
11
Azerbaijan
46.0
61.0
5.2
12
Bahrain
55.0
91.0
12.4
9.6
13
Bangladesh
Barbados
3.7
65.1
15
Belarus
31.8
16
Belgium
75.0
17
Belize
28.2
18
Benin
3.1
19
Bhutan
13.6
20
Bolivia
22.4
42.8
21
22
Botswana
23
Brazil
40.7
24
Brunei Darussalam
53.0
25
Bulgaria
46.2
26
Burkina Faso
76.7
3
27
Cambodia
1.3
28
Cameroon
4.3
25.8
19.8
1.2
28.8
36.0
38.7
2.9
2.9
0.3
60.8
57.6
55.5
9.0
1.2
3.3
1.6
10.2
14.1
0.6
7.2
15.2
0.2
Canada
80.3
30.0
31
Chad
1.7
2.5
32
Chile
45.0
72.4
33
China
34.3
49.3
9.3
34
Colombia
36.5
52.6
5.7
35
0.7
3.0
0.0
36
Congo (Rep.)
5.0
40.3
31.7
0.0
20.7
0.2
35.0
0.1
0.0
69.3
17.6
68.8
79.7
21.4
43
Denmark
88.7
96.0
38.1
44
Djibouti
6.5
1.0
2.3
45
Dominica
47.5
11.7
15.8
46
Dominican Rep.
31.4
47
Ecuador
48
49
50
Equatorial Guinea
6.0
51
Eritrea
0.6
1.5
Egypt
21.6
12
31.7
1.9
El Salvador
15.9
13
29.7
2.8
18.9
1.0
0.0
10.4
23.0
66.4
9.6
14.0
0.0
59.8
51.3
0.0
50.5
7.2
7.6
29.5
33.9
41.4
63.9
0.0
5.0
8.8
0.5
2.3
0.0
62.8
115.8
4.1
30.9
34.4
0.0
3.2
30.1
43.5
0.0
68.5
42.1
17.0
0.0
2.4
6
86.9
24.6
0.0
3.7
0.0
0.0
27.6
7.8
10.8
0.0
5.7
78.1
6.3
0.0
21.1
0.2
8.4
0.1
3.9
0.0
49.7
0.0
27.8
53.0
49.6
Czech Republic
43.0
29.4
28.1
0.0
28.2
7.9
Cyprus
42
29.0
1.0
2.8
0.0
10.2
0.0
41
30.0
10.7
34.9
57.8
5.5
6
55.0
0.0
68.6
62.9
11
10.6
45.1
6.4
106.8
15.9
1.5
0.3
0.0
5.3
2.4
56.6
19.3
46.8
126.2
Cuba
10.3
Croatia
5.0
0.3
41.8
40
8.5
67.2
1.0
0.0
0.0
112.2
0.0
53.6
34.2
0.0
39
9.5
16.4
33.0
3.5
Costa Rica
14.6
32.9
12.6
Cte dIvoire
49.4
20.8
55.5
0.0
14.4
37
10
5.0
3.2
36.6
0.0
14.1
38
2.7
3.8
10.4
7.1
11.5
1.4
2014
30.9
3.6
0.1
3.3
0.0
0.0
Cape Verde
7.1
0.1
29
87.1
0.0
11.9
1.6
5.4
1
0.4
0.9
0.0
27.0
3
21.4
0.0
0.0
27.5
30
36.5
2010
0.0
9.1
30.8
11.0
8
14.7
17.6
9.4
68.8
2.4
0.4
34.4
15.1
85.0
18.5
6
4.0
59.0
39.0
6.0
20.0
5.3
5
0.3
0.0
35.9
3.2
2014
6.6
8.2
10
14
31.5
64.0
0.0
3.4
95.9
2010
Active mobile
broadband subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
0.0
2010
52
Estonia
74.1
53
Ethiopia
0.8
54
Fiji
20.0
55
Finland
2014
2010
84.2
26.8
2.9
0.0
86.9
92.4
29.1
33.7
0.3
14
41.8
56
France
77.3
83.8
57
Gabon
7.2
9.8
58
Gambia
9.2
59
Georgia
26.9
48.9
4.2
60
Germany
82.0
86.2
31.5
61
Ghana
7.8
15
18.9
0.2
62
Greece
44.4
63.2
20.3
63
Grenada
27.0
37.4
13.8
64
Guatemala
10.5
65
Guinea-Bissau
66
Guyana
29.9
67
Honduras
68
69
2.5
15.6
3.3
11.1
19.1
72.0
13
74.6
Hungary
65.0
70
Iceland
93.4
71
India
72
Indonesia
73
Iran (I.R.)
74
37.4
0.1
76.1
21.6
14
98.2
34.3
18.0
0.9
10.9
16
17.1
0.9
15.9
12
39.4
1.3
Ireland
69.9
79.7
22.8
75
Israel
67.5
17
71.5
23.7
76
Italy
53.7
62.0
21.6
77
Jamaica
27.7
18
40.5
4.3
78
Japan
78.2
12
90.6
79
Jordan
27.2
44.0
54.9
4.5
80
Kazakhstan
31.6
81
Kenya
14.0
43.4
0.0
82
Korea (Rep.)
83.7
20
87.9
35.5
83
Kuwait
61.4
78.7
1.5
84
Kyrgyzstan
16.3
85
Lao P.D.R.
7.0
14.3
0.1
86
Latvia
68.4
75.8
20.8
87
Lebanon
43.7
21
74.7
7.6
88
Lesotho
3.9
89
Liberia
2.3
90
Lithuania
91
Luxembourg
92
0.0
62.1
22
72.1
22.1
90.6
94.7
33.2
Macao, China
55.2
20
69.8
24.7
93
Madagascar
1.7
3.7
0.0
94
Malawi
2.3
95
Malaysia
56.3
16
67.5
7.4
96
Maldives
26.5
23
49.3
97
Mali
98
Malta
99
Mauritania
100
101
5.8
2.0
63.0
4.0
Mauritius
28.3
41.4
Mexico
31.1
24
44.4
102
Moldova
32.3
103
Monaco
75.0
92.4
104
Mongolia
10.2
16
27.0
0.3
17.9
0.1
73.2
29.6
10.7
0.2
46.6
9.0
37.5
2.8
32.3
23.5
37.8
5.4
1.5
29.3
87.6
4.7
0.1
0.2
58.1
0.2
24.7
22.8
0.1
0.1
33.3
0.0
50.0
10.1
155.2
0.0
0.1
35.2
0.2
6.8
0.2
104.5
34.0
85.3
5.5
10.7
11
81.0
12
52.2
13
70.9
33.1
10
34.7
12
121.4
19.1
14
59.8
9.1
139.8
108.6
68.5
13
4.6
14
53.5
15
71.7
32.8
7.6
111.3
15
322.2
16
58.6
6.1
9.1
58.3
6.4
16
48.9
17
0.5
11.3
17
14.4
0.5
49.7
18
37.5
3.3
19
49.4
63.2
7.4
31.8
4.1
40.7
4.1
14.4
16
14.7
46.8
16.3
19.4
14.6
11.6
0.6
5.6
0.0
9.1
28.0
0.1
0.0
1.9
31.5
0.0
29.7
1.2
9.4
0.5
0.1
97.7
15
41.0
23.2
63.6
49.2
4.2
0.0
26.2
1.4
59.8
18.6
38.8
0.0
14
0.2
45.6
13
12.9
7.8
8.0
38.9
26.9
1.3
0.0
21.8
0.0
12
66.2
11
25.1
1.2
6.9
0.0
9.5
25.5
0.1
13
5.6
3.7
1.2
0.0
42.3
0.5
35.9
12
36.2
10
11
11
7.6
31.2
138.5
2.4
27.3
10
84.3
0.8
5.6
7.6
7
2014
117.0
7.5
0.0
1.4
4.8
7.0
0.1
28.4
0.0
35.8
2010
24.8
0.1
0.0
5.4
12.2
0.4
11.0
5.5
28.3
32.3
0.6
26.8
19
40.2
30.7
0.5
1.4
0.0
2014
1.4
10
1.8
7.5
0.0
23.4
Active mobile
broadband subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
27.4
2.7
Annex 4
Economy
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
Percentage of individuals
using the Internet
18
57.6
223
Economy
2010
224
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
Percentage of individuals
using the Internet
2014
2010
105
Montenegro
37.5
61.0
10.4
106
Morocco
52.0
25
107
Mozambique
108
Myanmar
0.3
109
Namibia
11.6
110
Nepal
111
Active mobile
broadband subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
2014
15.2
2010
8.9
0.6
14.3
56.8
1.6
14
3.0
5.9
0.1
0.0
14.8
0.4
1.8
7.9
26
15.4
0.2
11
0.8
17
0.1
Netherlands
90.7
27
93.2
41.0
18
112
New Zealand
80.5
113
Nicaragua
10.0
114
Nigeria
24.0
115
Norway
93.4
96.3
116
Oman
35.8
28
70.2
117
Pakistan
8.0
13.8
118
Panama
40.1
29
44.9
119
Paraguay
19.8
30
120
Peru
34.8
12
121
Philippines
25.0
122
Poland
123
Portugal
4.2
2.1
0.0
85.5
17.6
38.1
25.0
1.3
35.2
42.7
2.5
38.1
0.0
2.1
0.5
43.0
1.4
40.2
3.2
39.7
1.8
62.3
66.6
53.3
64.6
91.5
69.0
8.3
54.1
13.7
17
126
Russian Federation
43.0
70.5
10
10.9
127
Rwanda
8.0
10.6
128
Samoa
129
Saudi Arabia
130
Senegal
8.0
131
Serbia
40.9
132
Seychelles
41.0
133
Singapore
71.0
32
82.0
13
26.4
134
Slovakia
75.7
33
80.0
16.1
135
Slovenia
70.0
71.6
22.9
136
Solomon Islands
137
South Africa
24.0
49.0
138
South Sudan
7.0
139
Spain
65.8
140
Sri Lanka
12.0
141
63.0
65.4
142
St. Lucia
43.3
35
51.0
143
38.5
56.5
144
Sudan
16.7
145
Suriname
31.6
40.1
2.9
146
Sweden
90.0
36
92.5
32.0
147
Switzerland
83.9
37
87.0
14
37.2
148
Syria
20.7
149
Tanzania
150
7.0
41.0
21.2
63.7
31
17.7
53.5
10.4
15.6
18
12.7
27.8
26.6
1.4
3.2
0.0
19
10.9
23.1
27.9
25.8
24.6
11.4
23.7
28.1
4.9
0.0
TFYR Macedonia
51.9
68.1
12.3
151
Thailand
22.4
34.9
15
152
Togo
3.0
153
Tonga
16.0
40.0
154
48.5
65.1
155
Tunisia
36.8
46.2
4.5
156
Turkey
39.8
27
51.0
16
9.8
5.7
51.6
25
18.0
26
1.6
27
24.1
16.9
23
23.8
83.8
46.0
30.1
8.2
0.4
0.1
1.1
1.7
24
4.4
11.7
46.7
1.0
28
77.1
1.3
26
13.0
6.4
29.8
27
34.4
27.2
71.6
116.3
76.6
21
5.7
18.4
0.0
3.0
28
79.9
0.0
0.0
19.3
0.9
47.6
0.5
47.7
10.0
13.0
29
17.5
0.5
59.5
3.1
20
46.7
0.0
34.2
25
12.7
1.4
0.0
61.1
156.1
0.0
99.0
1.6
0.0
23.7
20.8
16.4
0.2
24
65.9
0.0
4.9
11.1
25.7
0.0
16.2
0.2
49.4
0.0
98.4
106.3
34.5
23
62.3
8.5
12.3
13.7
45.3
1.7
4.2
0.1
0.3
14.9
2.7
50.2
15.4
29.5
24.2
2.6
0.0
2.9
5.1
23
9.3
22
73.7
22
0.0
27.3
93.0
28.0
22
21
11.7
0.2
11.6
74.3
1.4
0.9
21.8
2.3
0.7
1.1
92.7
0.7
1.1
0.5
15.9
76.2
7.4
9.0
34
0.1
6.3
38.6
14.9
24
17.5
0.6
9.9
18.5
0.1
12
54.3
5.0
0.0
20
2.5
26.7
39.9
69.1
21
3.2
23.8
Qatar
38.0
21
Romania
19
7.9
20.1
124
17.4
15.3
125
20
0.1
15
16
35.5
26.2
5.7
16
20
23.2
3.0
1.1
31.0
26.8
0.6
19
4.5
7.0
9
2014
0.0
30.5
0.1
5.0
0.3
4.1
4
28.3
42.7
2010
2014
Uganda
12.5
158
Ukraine
23.3
159
68.0
16
90.4
17
160
United Kingdom
85.0
161
United States
71.7
38
162
Uruguay
46.4
12
61.5
163
Vanuatu
8.0
18.8
164
Venezuela
37.4
57.0
165
Viet Nam
30.7
48.3
166
Zambia
10.0
167
Zimbabwe
11.5
17.7
157
2014
9.3
21
11.5
91.6
30.9
22
37.4
87.4
27.1
23
6.4
0.2
5.8
4.1
0.1
0.3
8.4
11.4
17.3
19.9
0.0
0.3
43.4
2010
Active mobile
broadband subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
11
Annex 4
Economy
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions
per 100 inhabitants
Percentage of individuals
using the Internet
2010
1.6
4.1
25
13.4
2014
14.7
7.5
30
43.2
114.0
98.7
29
60.1
97.9
30
13.4
31
59.8
31
26.2
43.9
31.0
30.4
26
24.6
27
1.8
28
0.0
7.8
21.4
6.5
7.9
0.1
29
0.3
1.0
4.7
1.0
39.2
32
225
Skills indicators
Gross enrolment ratio
Economy
226
Secondary
2010
2014
Afghanistan
50.2
54.3
Albania
82.4
82.4
Algeria
95.4
97.6
Andorra
87.0
130.8
Angola
7
8
31.3
31.5
106.2
105.4
Argentina
90.2
107.3
Armenia
96.6
95.9
Australia
130.8
135.5
10
Austria
98.6
97.7
11
Azerbaijan
98.8
100.3
12
Bahrain
96.4
95.5
13
Bangladesh
49.9
53.7
14
Barbados
101.5
104.7
15
Belarus
107.0
105.1
16
Belgium
105.1
107.3
17
Belize
80.5
86.1
18
Benin
47.7
54.2
19
Bhutan
66.3
77.7
20
Bolivia
77.5
80.0
21
89.3
89.3
22
Botswana
81.7
81.7
23
Brazil
105.5
105.8
24
Brunei Darussalam
100.7
105.9
25
Bulgaria
90.4
93.1
26
Burkina Faso
21.9
28.4
27
Cambodia
45.0
45.0
28
Cameroon
39.6
50.4
29
Canada
102.4
103.4
30
Cape Verde
87.8
92.7
31
Chad
22.9
22.8
32
Chile
89.1
89.0
33
China
83.1
89.0
34
Colombia
96.0
93.0
35
40.9
43.3
36
Congo (Rep.)
53.7
53.7
37
Costa Rica
99.4
108.9
38
Cte dIvoire
39.1
39.1
39
Croatia
98.4
98.4
40
Cuba
89.2
92.1
41
Cyprus
91.4
95.3
42
Czech Republic
94.5
96.6
43
Denmark
119.5
124.7
44
Djibouti
33.3
47.7
45
Dominica
96.9
96.7
46
Dominican Rep.
75.5
75.9
47
Ecuador
85.2
103.3
48
Egypt
75.9
86.3
49
El Salvador
64.7
70.2
50
Equatorial Guinea
28.2
28.2
51
Eritrea
32.6
29.8
52
Estonia
109.1
107.1
Tertiary
2010
3.9
3.7
43.6
55.5
28.8
31.5
84.6
84.6
7.5
7.5
16.2
23.5
74.8
80.3
50.6
46.1
79.8
86.3
68.7
72.4
19.3
20.4
29.8
33.5
10.5
13.2
64.8
60.8
79.0
92.9
67.5
70.8
22.6
25.9
13.3
12.4
7.0
9.4
37.7
37.7
38.1
37.7
17.0
7.4
25.5
25.6
17.6
24.3
58.0
62.7
3.6
4.8
14.1
15.8
11.0
11.9
58.9
66.6
18.0
22.9
2.1
2.3
65.9
74.4
23.3
26.7
39.0
48.3
6.8
8.2
6.5
9.6
25.6
47.6
8.4
9.1
55.8
61.6
95.0
47.8
48.3
45.9
63.2
64.2
73.6
79.6
3.4
4.9
34.2
34.2
46.4
46.4
38.9
40.5
33.5
30.1
23.4
25.5
2.0
3.3
2.0
2.0
71.7
76.7
2014
2010
28.0
38.2
96.8
97.6
72.6
80.2
97.9
97.9
67.4
71.1
99.0
99.0
97.9
98.1
99.6
99.7
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.5
99.8
94.6
95.7
57.7
61.6
99.0
99.0
99.6
99.7
99.0
99.0
95.5
95.5
28.7
38.5
52.8
64.9
91.2
95.7
98.0
98.5
85.1
88.5
91.4
92.6
95.4
96.0
98.4
98.4
28.7
36.0
73.9
77.2
71.3
75.0
99.0
99.0
84.9
87.6
35.4
40.2
98.6
97.5
95.1
96.4
93.6
94.7
66.8
63.8
66.8
79.3
96.3
97.8
41.0
43.1
98.9
99.3
99.8
99.9
98.7
99.1
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.0
73.0
94.2
89.1
89.1
90.1
91.8
91.6
94.5
72.0
73.8
84.5
88.0
94.2
95.3
68.9
73.8
99.8
99.8
2014
Secondary
2010
2014
53
Ethiopia
28.9
28.9
54
Fiji
86.5
88.3
55
Finland
107.2
107.7
56
France
110.0
109.7
57
Gabon
53.9
53.9
58
Gambia
57.5
57.5
59
Georgia
86.8
100.6
60
Germany
101.6
101.3
61
Ghana
58.3
67.1
62
Greece
110.8
108.6
63
Grenada
107.8
107.8
64
Guatemala
64.6
65.3
65
Guinea-Bissau
34.5
34.5
66
Guyana
99.4
101.0
67
Honduras
73.2
71.0
68
87.2
99.3
69
Hungary
100.0
101.6
70
Iceland
109.5
112.0
71
India
65.1
68.5
72
Indonesia
78.4
82.5
73
Iran (I.R.)
81.1
86.3
74
Ireland
121.2
119.1
75
Israel
102.0
101.4
76
Italy
100.3
99.2
77
Jamaica
91.0
77.8
78
Japan
101.6
101.8
79
Jordan
89.9
87.8
80
Kazakhstan
96.1
97.7
81
Kenya
60.1
67.0
82
Korea (Rep.)
97.1
97.2
83
Kuwait
100.3
100.3
84
Kyrgyzstan
84.0
88.2
85
Lao P.D.R.
44.8
50.5
86
Latvia
98.5
97.7
87
Lebanon
74.4
75.1
88
Lesotho
50.4
53.3
89
Liberia
31.7
37.9
90
Lithuania
106.7
105.9
91
Luxembourg
101.0
100.1
92
Macao, China
93.8
96.0
93
Madagascar
30.4
38.4
94
Malawi
32.7
36.6
95
Malaysia
66.9
70.8
96
Maldives
72.3
72.3
97
Mali
42.4
45.0
98
Malta
99.1
86.3
99
Mauritania
20.3
29.5
100
Mauritius
93.2
95.9
101
Mexico
83.7
85.7
102
Moldova
88.0
88.3
103
Monaco
119.7
109.7
104
Mongolia
91.6
103.5
105
Montenegro
98.6
90.9
106
Morocco
62.5
68.9
Tertiary
2014
2.8
2.8
16.2
16.1
94.1
93.7
56.1
58.3
8.5
8.5
4.1
3.4
28.3
33.1
46.2
61.7
8.8
12.2
108.1
116.6
52.8
52.8
17.9
18.7
2.6
2.6
11.5
12.9
20.6
21.1
57.8
66.8
60.4
59.6
78.5
81.4
18.2
24.8
24.9
31.5
43.1
55.2
70.6
71.2
62.4
67.9
64.3
62.5
28.9
28.7
58.1
61.5
40.4
46.6
39.5
44.5
4.1
4.0
101.0
98.4
28.5
28.5
42.1
47.6
16.1
17.7
70.6
65.1
47.8
47.9
10.8
10.8
9.3
11.6
80.8
74.0
18.2
19.7
61.8
62.6
3.6
4.1
0.7
0.8
37.1
37.2
13.2
13.2
6.5
7.5
36.5
41.2
4.4
5.4
34.2
41.2
26.7
29.0
38.2
41.3
54.9
54.9
53.8
62.3
55.5
55.5
14.3
16.2
2010
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2010
2014
39.0
49.1
95.1
95.1
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.0
82.3
83.2
51.1
55.6
99.7
99.8
99.0
99.0
71.5
76.6
97.3
97.7
99.0
99.0
75.9
81.6
41.4
59.9
85.0
88.5
85.1
88.5
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.1
99.0
99.0
62.8
71.2
92.8
93.9
85.0
86.9
99.0
96.7
99.0
97.8
99.0
99.2
87.0
88.7
99.0
99.0
95.9
95.4
99.7
99.8
72.2
78.0
99.0
99.0
93.9
96.3
99.2
99.5
72.7
79.9
99.9
99.9
89.6
93.9
75.8
79.4
42.9
47.6
99.8
99.8
99.0
99.0
95.6
96.2
64.5
64.7
61.3
65.8
93.1
94.6
98.4
99.3
33.4
38.7
92.4
94.4
58.6
52.1
88.8
90.6
93.5
95.1
99.0
99.4
99.0
99.0
98.3
98.4
98.5
98.7
67.1
68.5
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228
Secondary
2010
2014
107
Mozambique
25.3
26.1
108
Myanmar
50.2
50.2
109
Namibia
64.9
64.8
110
Nepal
60.4
67.0
111
Netherlands
122.0
129.9
112
New Zealand
119.1
119.5
113
Nicaragua
68.9
68.9
114
Nigeria
43.8
43.8
115
Norway
113.1
111.1
116
Oman
96.2
93.5
117
Pakistan
34.1
38.3
118
Panama
70.3
73.0
119
Paraguay
67.8
69.6
120
Peru
91.7
94.0
121
Philippines
84.6
84.6
122
Poland
97.2
97.7
123
Portugal
109.7
112.9
124
Qatar
104.3
111.6
125
Romania
94.9
95.0
126
Russian Federation
84.9
95.3
127
Rwanda
30.1
32.6
128
Samoa
87.7
85.7
129
Saudi Arabia
110.2
116.2
130
Senegal
36.4
41.0
131
Serbia
91.4
94.4
132
Seychelles
74.8
79.5
133
Singapore
74.1
97.2
134
Slovakia
92.8
93.9
135
Slovenia
97.8
97.6
136
Solomon Islands
48.6
48.4
137
South Africa
95.4
110.8
138
South Sudan
40.7
40.7
139
Spain
124.6
130.8
140
Sri Lanka
97.2
99.3
141
97.5
101.2
142
St. Lucia
95.2
88.4
143
107.5
102.9
144
Sudan
41.7
40.7
145
Suriname
74.9
76.0
146
Sweden
98.1
98.4
147
Switzerland
95.8
96.3
148
Syria
72.5
47.7
149
Tanzania
31.7
33.0
150
TFYR Macedonia
81.9
82.8
151
Thailand
83.5
87.0
152
Togo
44.0
54.9
153
Tonga
104.0
90.9
154
85.5
85.5
155
Tunisia
89.0
90.6
156
Turkey
84.4
86.1
157
Uganda
26.4
26.9
158
Ukraine
95.4
98.9
159
83.6
83.6
160
United Kingdom
106.2
95.4
Tertiary
2010
2014
4.6
5.2
10.1
13.4
9.3
9.3
14.4
14.5
64.3
77.3
82.6
79.8
17.0
17.9
10.4
10.4
72.8
74.1
24.8
28.1
6.6
9.8
43.9
43.5
34.5
34.5
40.7
42.6
28.2
28.2
73.5
73.2
66.0
68.9
10.0
14.3
56.8
51.6
75.5
76.1
5.8
6.9
7.6
7.5
37.3
57.5
7.6
7.6
49.1
56.4
1.8
1.3
43.8
43.8
56.0
55.1
88.5
86.0
16.2
16.2
15.8
19.7
17.2
17.2
78.1
84.6
16.0
17.0
18.2
18.2
12.5
13.9
18.2
18.2
15.2
17.2
12.1
12.1
74.6
70.0
52.8
55.6
25.7
28.4
2.1
3.9
37.1
38.5
50.0
51.2
9.1
10.0
6.4
6.3
12.0
12.0
36.1
35.2
55.9
69.4
3.9
9.1
76.7
79.0
30.4
30.4
60.5
61.9
2010
2014
50.6
58.8
92.7
93.1
76.5
81.9
57.4
64.0
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.0
78.0
82.8
51.1
59.6
99.0
99.0
86.9
91.1
54.9
57.9
94.1
95.1
93.9
95.6
89.6
94.5
95.4
96.3
99.7
99.8
95.4
95.7
96.3
97.3
97.7
98.8
99.7
99.7
65.9
70.5
98.8
99.0
87.2
94.7
52.1
57.7
98.0
98.1
91.8
91.8
95.9
96.8
99.0
99.5
99.7
99.7
82.0
98.7
93.0
94.3
73.4
75.9
97.7
98.1
91.2
92.6
96.0
98.4
99.0
99.0
99.0
99.0
71.9
75.9
94.7
95.6
99.0
99.0
99.0
98.7
84.1
86.4
67.8
70.6
97.4
97.8
96.4
96.7
60.4
66.6
99.0
99.4
98.8
99.0
79.1
81.8
94.1
95.0
73.2
78.4
99.7
99.8
90.0
93.8
99.0
95.2
Secondary
2010
2014
Tertiary
2010
2014
93.3
94.3
63.2
63.2
4.6
4.7
77.9
78.1
161
United States
93.2
93.7
162
Uruguay
90.3
90.3
163
Vanuatu
59.5
59.5
164
Venezuela
82.3
93.0
165
Viet Nam
77.2
77.2
22.4
24.6
166
Zambia
45.5
45.5
2.4
167
Zimbabwe
47.2
47.2
6.2
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2010
2014
99.0
99.0
98.1
98.5
83.2
85.2
95.5
96.3
93.4
94.5
2.4
61.4
63.4
5.8
83.6
86.5
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Notes
Access indicators
Fixed-telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, 2010
1) Includes payphone, excludes VOIP. 2) Incl. ISDN channels measured in ISDN B channels equivalents. 3) Incl. VoIP. 4) Incl.
PSTN, CDMA, and AMPS fixed base. 5) This is an estimate as there was no verifiable statistics at beginning of April 2010. 6)
WLL lines included. 7) Total access lines. 8) Incl. PSTN+ISDN channels and VoIP subscriptions. 9) Incl. IP lines. 10) Estimate
based on June 2010 data. 11) 30th June 2011. 12) From this year, data incl. WLL subscriptions. 13) Incl. PSTN lines, ISDN
paths, FWA subscriptions, public payphones and VOIP subscriptions. 14) Source: AGCOM Quarterly Observatory - including
Telecom Italia access lines, ULL, Virtual ULL, Naked DSL, Wholesale line Rental, Fiber, Public Telephony. 15) Source: MOT. 16)
Fixed Wireless Local Loop. 17) Including digital lines. Without ISDN channels. 18) Revised figure, excl. ISDN channels and fixed
wireless subscriptions. 19) Includes inactive subscriptions. 20) December. 21) Refers to active Fixed Wired/Wireless lines. 22)
Revised. 23) POTS, ISDN BRA & ISDN PRA. 24) Operators data/ictQATAR estimate. 25) January 2011 data. 26) Excl. internal
lines and WLR of incumbent. 27) Break in comparability: only includes fixed subscriptions (BLR and RNIS) but excludes CDMA
subscriptions. 28) Dec.
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different network operators). 10) Data from one operator refer to end of Q3. 11) New tax on numbering resources, which has
prompted operators to return several numbers, either inactive ones or with low consumption. 13) December 2014. Including
fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions. 14) Estimate. 15) Dec.2014 including PHS and data cards, undividable. 16) There
are Ref.no from 4 main operators, LTC, BEELINE, UNITEL, and ETL. 17) Active subscribers. 18) September. Preliminary. 19) End
of 2013 year mobile active subscriptions 2877584. 20) Source: January 2015 Management Information System Report. 21)
Q3 data. Excl. M2M and dedicated mobile broadband. 22) Estimate of subscriptions active in last 90 days. 23) Estimate. Incl.
inactive. 24) End June. 25) Figures are as off 31st December, 2014 based on data received from Cellular Mobile Operators. 26)
From this year excl. data-only subscriptions. 27) Excl. 495 811 M2M subscriptions. 28) Includes active (in the last 6 months)
prepaid accounts. 29) This is the total number of subscriptions from four operators. 30) Q4 (consolidated end-2014 data not
yet available). 31) Reduction due to change in accounting method for prepaid subs by major provider. 32) Q3. 33) Incl. data
dedicated subscriptions.
Use indicators
Percentage of individuals using the Internet, 2010
1) Population age 16-74. 2) Population age 7+. 3) Population age 16+. 4) Population age 5+. 5) Country estimate. 6) In the
last 3 months. Population 10+. 7) Population age 16-74. 8) Population age 16+. Survey was redesigned, therefore comparison
with previous years should not be done. 9) Estimated based on surveys results. Population age 5+. 10) Population age 5+
using Internet in the last 3 months. 11) Incl. users of the international network and also those having access only to the
Cuban network. 12) Population age 6+. 13) Population age 10+. 14) Population age 16-74, in the last 3 months. 15) Break
in comparability: persons 12 years and older. Based on Census 2010 results. 16) Refers to total population. 17) Population
age 20+. 18) Population age 14+. 19) According to annual sample surveys. Population age 16-74. 20) Population age 3+. 21)
Estimate based on population aged 15+. 22) Population age 16-74 using Internet in the last 12 months. 23) Population age
15+. Census. 24) Estimate to December based on ENDUTIH survey. Refers to total population. 25) Estimate for population age
6-74 in electrified areas (98% of households are in electrified areas (with 86.4% in rural areas)). 26) December. 27) Population
age 16-74 using Internet in the last 12 months. 28) Population age 5+. Census. 29) Multipliers were applied to residential and
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commercial subscriptions, taking into account the average size of households and employees per business. 30) Population
age 10+ using internet in the last 3 months. 31) Refers to total population. Survey result: 16% for population age 12+. 32)
Estimated based on proportion of resident Internet users (aged 7 & above) from IDAs annual survey on infocomm usage in
household and by individuals. 33) Population age 16-74 in the last 3 months (source: Eurostat). 34) CMTs survey. Population
age 10+. 35) Census. 36) Population age 16-75. 37) In the last 6 months. Population age 14+. 38) NTIA/CPS survey.
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