Information and Statistics

Introduction

This section gathers information that would help understanding the whole picture through statistics. All informations related to mobile penetration, characteristics of the mobile market, mobile coverage, Web usage, barriers to adoption,... are helpful to understand commonalities and specificities of each group of Developing Countries. These information can be either qualitative (description of the situation) or quantitative (statistics).

Resources

Directories of information sorted by country

Global Coverage

• Measuring the Information Society - ICT Development Index
  ITU
  2009
• The Size of the Mobile Industry in 2009 - short overview of major stats
  March 31 2009
• World Bank ICT at a Glance tables
  Database of telecom-related data, by country
• MobileActive database
  basic mobile phone data, drawn from World Bank, with mobile providers also listed
• State of the Mobile Web
  Statistics about Opera mini usage including Indonesia, Ukraine, India, Russia, china, South Africa,...
  From April 2008 and onward
• Measuring the Information Society - The ICT Development Index 2009
  ITU - 2009
• CIA World Factbook
  The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities

Regional Coverage

• Mobile phone access and Usage in Africa
  Avril 2009
• Mobile Telecommunications Companies in Sub-Saharan Africa
  List of all providers, by country (includes ownership links)
• Africa Mobile Fact Book 2008
  Some facts about Africa Mobile information (infrastructure, handsets,...)
  February 2008
• The economic impact of mobile services in Latin America
  A report for the GSMA, GSM Latin America and AHCIET. Contains information about mobile infrastructure about Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Peru
  December 2005
• Admobs Mobile Metrics Report
  Report about mobile traffic in different regions of the World. Notably Traffic, Manufacturers and Devices for Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania, Philippines, South Africa, India and Indonesia
  from September 2007 and onward

Country Specific Information

• Some Information About Colombia (South America).
• Mobile Penetration in India
  a report by TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA
  March 2008

Misc

• Statistics on illiteracy and lesser-known languages
  2001