World Bank • ICT at a Glance
France 2000
2007
High-income group 2007
59 76 24,450 2.9 — 92
62 77 38,810 1.8 — 97
1,056 78 37,572 2.4 99 92
France
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)
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000
Yes Mixed
Yes Mixed
C P C
C C C
2.1 408 26.5
2.2 695 14.0
0
2000
2002
2004 2006 2007 France High-income group
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 100
3.1 747 14.3
80 60 40 20 0 2000
57.7 49.3 9.2 30.4 94
56.4 89.7 27.6 65.2 97
50.0 100.4 25.8 67.4 98
14.4 140 14.4
20.3 198 51.2
14.0 353 65.7
99 3.6 1,148
99 91.2 29,466
99 82.6 18,242
18.4 — — 0.82
29.0 23.3 13.7 0.84
26.1 13.0 22.8 0.81
12.1 13.0 2.6
8.0 9.8 4.1
15.2 14.6 7.0
— — 27.7
5.7 0.83 171.7
6.7 0.60 662.6
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 40 30 20 10 0 2003
2004
2005 2006 France High-income group
2007
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0 2000
2002
2004 2006 2007 France High-income group
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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