Research Guides: Statistics Resource Guide: Information and Communication Technology

Information and Communication Technology

OECD: Information and Communication Statistics
UNESCO Data Centre: Culture and Communication Statistics
Eurostat: Information Technology Statistics
The statistics in this section track the usage of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). More specifically, statistics on the information society monitor three aspects: the completion of a single European information space, innovation and investment in ICT research, achieving an inclusive European information society.
UNCTAD: Measuring the Information Economy
UNCTAD member States recognize that it is crucial to assess the state of use and impact of ICTs in developing countries. By using comparable and reliable data and indicators on their information societies, Governments can formulate and evaluate policies that will maximize the benefits of ICT for the development of their countries.
World Bank: Information and Communication (ICT) At-a-Glance Tables
ICT tables provide key data on information and communications technologies, with sections on economic and social context, ICT sector structure, and ICT sector performance.
World Bank: Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM)
The KAM consists of 109 structural and qualitative variables for 146 countries to measure their performance on the 4 Knowledge Economy (KE) pillars: Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime, Education, Innovation, and Information and Communications Technologies.
ITU - International Telecommunication Union
ITU: World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database
The World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-2009 for around 150 different telecommunication and ICT statistics covering the telecommunication network and ICT uptake, mobile services, quality of service, traffic, staff, tariffs, revenue and investment.
ITU: ICT Eye
The ICT “eye” website is a one stop-shop for ICT information and provides telecommunication/ICT indicators and statistics, regulatory and policy profiles, national tariff policies and scientific institutions, and much much more...
ITU: Measuring the Information Society
Measuring the Information Society features the new ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket - two benchmarking tools to measure the Information Society. The IDI captures the level of advancement of ICTs in 159 countries worldwide and also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed in recent years.

New and featured resources

World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends. by World Bank
Publication Date: 2016
The report examines how the Internet can be a force for development, especially for the poor in developing countries. It partly draws on research undertaken by UNCTAD in the area of the development implications of ICT.
Manual for the Production of statistics on the information economy : 2009 revised edition by UN Conference on Trade and Development
Publication Date: 2009
A guide for entities in charge of producing official statistics on the information economy, on how to produce statistics on the core indicators on ICT use in business, the ICT sector and trade in ICT goods, in a streamlined and internationally comparable manner. The Manual describes in details the core indicators on the information economy and the steps to produce them.