World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Hong Kong, China Hong Kong, China 2000 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)
7 100 26,570 1.8 — —
7 100 31,560 5.2 — 76
High-income group 2007
1,056 78 37,572 2.4 99 92
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000
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No —
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4.4 243 12.0
3.5 813 12.6
0
2000
2002
2004 2006 2007 Hong Kong, China High-income group
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 200
3.1 747 14.3
150 100 50 0
58.9 81.7 40.0 40.2 98
59.6 155.2 41.4 68.6 100
50.0 100.4 25.8 67.4 98
62.8 353 27.8
115.6 491 57.2
14.0 353 65.7
100 16.7 627
100 66.3 15,892
99 82.6 18,242
12.6 — — 2.62
8.4 2.6 25.4 0.77
26.1 13.0 22.8 0.81
27.3 30.1 1.0
42.1 41.8 1.6
15.2 14.6 7.0
— — 80.1
4.7 — 287.5
6.7 0.60 662.6
2000
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 Hong Kong, China High-income group
2007
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0
2000
2002
2004 2006 2007 Hong Kong, China 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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