World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Romania Upper-middleRomania 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)
22 54 1,690 –2.1 97 68
22 54 6,390 6.1 98 77
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
No Mixed
Yes Mixed
M C C
C C C
2.3 151 67.8
3.5 617 21.5
0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Romania Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 120
3.3 566 —
2.9 532 22.0
90 60 30 0 2000
17.4 11.1 1.7 3.2 90
19.8 106.2 10.0 19.2 90
22.6 84.1 9.4 12.4 92
25.7 95.0 13.6 10.6 96
2.9 — 3.6
3.4 289 23.9
— 137 26.6
— 154 21.4
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 40 30 20 10
97 4.3 4
98 90.5 2,945
95 47.8 1,185
92 32.5 1,114
10.6 — — 2.49
7.2 10.5 17.0 0.82
10.6 10.9 16.4 1.55
5.8 11.8 12.0 1.63
0 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Romania Europe & Central Asia Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 25 20
5.3 12.0 10.8
3.1 7.6 16.3
13.5 16.2 4.6
1.8 7.0 5.0
— — 2.4
5.3 0.41 15.5
5.2 0.37 26.2
5.0 0.36 23.9
15 10 5 0
2000
2006 2007 2004 2002 Romania 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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