World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Myanmar Myanmar 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)
46 28 — 7.6 90 47
49 32 — 9.2 — 50
Low-income group 2007
East Asia & Pacific Region 2007
1,296 32 574 5.6 64 51
1,912 43 2,182 9.0 93 69
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500
— Public
No Public
M M M
M M P
0.2 37 25.3
0.6 81 8.6
0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Myanmar (—) East Asia & Pacific Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 4
3.3 301 —
3.0 546 —
3 2 1 0 2000
0.6 0.0 0.0 0.2 3
1.1 0.4 0.0 0.9 3
4.0 21.5 0.8 1.5 16
23.1 43.7 9.3 5.6 53
0.1 — 0.0
0.2 — 0.1
— — 5.2
0.8 333 14.6
— — 0
10 10.6 2
54 3.4 26
93 41.8 247
0.6 — — 0.44
1.3 141.6 46.3 0.17
5.7 11.2 29.2 2.00
5.8 5.0 14.4 1.16
— — —
— — —
1.4 6.7 —
30.9 28.1 5.2
— — —
— 0.11 0.0
— 0.11 0.5
7.3 0.18 1.9
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 80 60 40 20 0
2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Myanmar East Asia & Pacific Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Myanmar (—) East Asia & Pacific 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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