Chad Sub-Saharan Africa
Low income Lowincome group 2015 2015
Country data 2010 Economic and social context Population (millions) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method ($) GDP growth, 2005–10 and 2010–15 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, and tertiary school enrollment (%)
12 22 910 4.5 .. 43
Sector structure Yes Separate telecommunications/ICT regulator Public Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competition (competition, partial comp., monopoly) .. International gateway(s) .. Mobile telephone service C Internet service R Foreign ownership (not allowed, restricted, allowed) B Reg. treatment of VoIP (banned, closed, no framework, allowed) Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Telecommunications investment (% of revenue)
14 22 880 5.3 40 ..
638 31 620 5.4 .. 60
Yes Public .. .. C A B
2.1 ..
2.6 ..
.. ..
Sector performance Access Fixed-telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed-broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) Households with a computer (%) Households with Internet access at home (%)
0.4 24.5 0.0 1.1a 0.9a
0.1 40.2 0.1 3.5a 3.1a
0.9 60.0 0.3 4.8 7.1
Usage Int’l. voice traffic, total (minutes/subscription/month) Domestic mobile traffic (minutes/subscription/month) Individuals using the Internet (%)
3.4 31.1 1.7a
3.5 41.2 2.7a
.. 48.9 9.5
Quality Population covered by at least a 3G mobile network (%) International Internet bandwidth (bit/s per Internet user)
.. 96
13 2,575
51 4,245
Affordability Mobile-cellular sub-basket ($ a month) Fixed-broadband sub-basket ($ a month) Mobile-b’band, prepaid handset-based, 500 MB ($ a month) Mobile-b’band, postpaid computer-based, 1 GB ($ a month)
.. .. .. ..
15.8 500.8 8.5 17.4
9.4 33.6 8.0 10.8
Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports)
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
.. 3.4 ..
Applications Online service index (0-1, 1=highest presence) Secure Internet servers (per million people)
0.02 ..
0.05 0.2
0.11 1.5
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