Hong Kong SAR, China High income Highincome group 2009
Country data 2000 Economic and social context Population (millions) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method ($) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–09 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, and tertiary enrollment (%)
2009
7 100 26,570 1.8 .. ..
7 100 31,570 4.7 .. 75
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4.4 243 12.0
3.6 980 12.2
3.0 765 15.5
58.9 81.7 40.0 40.2 99
59.8 174.3 43.4 69.3 99
45.1 111.2 24.3 65.4 98
.. 353 27.8
119.6 459 61.4
.. 343 72.3
100 100 16.7 67.7 627 560,989
99 89.2 19,521
Structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competition (competition, partial comp., monopoly) International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile cellular and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television (%) Usage International voice traffic, total (minutes per person per month) Mobile telephone usage (minutes per user per month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (% of total subscribers) International Internet bandwidth (bits per second per person) Affordability Residential fixed line tariff ($ a month) Mobile cellular prepaid tariff ($ a month) Fixed broadband Internet access tariff ($ a month) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications E-gov’t Web measure index (0–1, 1=highest presence) Secure Internet servers (per million people)
1,117 77 37,990 2.0 98 91
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7.1 0.8 12.8
22.8 14.8 28.8
27.3 30.1 1.0
44.6 43.6 1.7
12.2 13.3 8.1
.. 80.1
.. 455.2
0.46 905.1
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