World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Armenia Lower-middleArmenia income group 2000 2007 2007
Economic and social context Population (total, million) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%)
3 65 660 5.1 99 72
3 64 2,630 12.7 99 71
3,435 42 1,905 8.0 83 68
Europe & Central Asia Region 2007
446 64 6,052 6.1 98 82
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000
Sector structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/month) Price basket for mobile service (US$/month) Price basket for Internet service (US$/month) Price of call to United States (US$ for 3 minutes) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications ICT expenditure (% of GDP) E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, Dec. 2008)
— Mixed
Yes Mixed
M M C
M P C
3.0 71 46.3
3.0 173 23.6
0
3.3 — 1.3
19.7 62.4 3.0 9.8 91 10.7 171 5.7
2002 2004 2006 2007 Armenia Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 80
3.1 624 25.3
2.9 532 22.0
60 40 20 0
17.3 0.6 0.4 0.8 89
2000
15.3 38.9 6.0 4.6 79 — 322 12.4
25.7 95.0 13.6 10.6 96 — 154 21.4
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 80 60 40 20
38 0.0 3
88 1.1 22
80 40.4 199
92 32.5 1,114
8.1 — — 5.34
3.1 8.7 56.6 2.42
7.2 9.8 16.7 2.08
5.8 11.8 12.0 1.63
2.1 7.0 13.0
0.6 5.8 14.6
20.6 20.2 15.6
1.8 7.0 5.0
— — 0.3
— 0.27 4.7
6.5 0.33 1.8
5.0 0.36 23.9
0
2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Armenia Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 20 15 10 5 0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Armenia Europe & Central Asia Region
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: Global Insight/WITSA, IMF, ITU, Netcraft, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. — Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0–1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
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