Liberia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Low income Lowincome group 2009
Country data 2000 Economic and social context Population (millions) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method ($) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–09 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, and tertiary enrollment (%) Structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competition (competition, partial comp., monopoly) International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service
3 54 140 38.9 .. 65
4 61 160 0.0 59 ..
.. Public
Yes Public
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.. P C
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8.2 .. ..
2.9 301 ..
0.2 0.1 .. .. ..
0.1 21.3 0.4 .. 9
1.2 26.6 0.1 0.9 ..
.. .. 0.0
.. 29 0.5
.. .. 2.7
.. .. 0
16 .. ..
53 5.4 7
.. .. ..
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8.8 8.0 89.9
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
0.6 5.9 6.5
.. ..
0.06 0.7
0.09 0.6
Efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile cellular and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television (%) Usage International voice traffic, total (minutes per person per month) Mobile telephone usage (minutes per user per month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (% of total subscribers) International Internet bandwidth (bits per second per person) Affordability Residential fixed line tariff ($ 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)
2009
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology
2011
846 29 509 5.4 62 56
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