World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Belarus Upper-middleBelarus 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$) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%) Sector structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/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)
10 70 1,380 6.7 100 87
10 73 4,220 8.3 100 89
824 75 7,107 4.3 94 82
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
— Public
No Public
M C —
M C C
0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Belarus Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 80
1.5 105 28.8
2.1 280 41.3
3.3 566 —
2.9 532 22.0
60 40 20 0
27.5 0.5 0.0 — 87
37.8 71.7 4.2 0.8 97
22.6 84.1 9.4 12.4 92
25.7 95.0 13.6 10.6 96
3.3 — 1.9
5.3 500 29.0
— 137 26.6
— 154 21.4
62 0.0 2
93 2.8 264
95 47.8 1,185
92 32.5 1,114
1.2 — — 3.28
1.6 11.8 10.5 1.90
10.6 10.9 16.4 1.55
5.8 11.8 12.0 1.63
1.9 2.9 5.4
0.8 3.0 6.8
13.5 16.2 4.6
1.8 7.0 5.0
— — 0.4
— 0.33 2.1
5.2 0.37 26.2
5.0 0.36 23.9
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 25 20 15 10 5 0
2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Belarus Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Belarus 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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