Low income: ICT goods imports (% total goods imports)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 0.46 percentage points from 3.07% in 2014. Since 2008 it is down 1.33 percentage points from 3.93% in 2008. The World Bank has no value for 2 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.13 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 39% of the movement over 9 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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What this measures

Information and communication technology goods imports include computers and peripheral equipment, communication equipment, consumer electronic equipment, electronic components, and other information and technology goods (miscellaneous).

Limitations: Detailed trade data are widely available from country trade statistics. These are collected by the UNSD and published in their UN COMTRADE database. The ICT goods trade indicators are usually compiled by interested international and national agencies using COMTRADE data. Concepts are therefore consistent with those applying to the COMTRADE database. The main statistical issue associated with this indicator appears to be the different treatment of re-exports and re-imports by countries, depending on whether the Special or General Trade System is used.2 Re-imports are separately reported for some countries and the value of ICT re-imports (which is included in the value of ICT imports for those…

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 10 values

ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 1.02% (2019)
• Algeria — 4.83% (2017)
• Bahrain — 5.19% (2023)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 3.2% (2024)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 6.09% (2022)
• Israel — 10.3% (2024)
• Jordan — 3.45% (2023)
• Kuwait — 6.84% (2023)
• Lebanon — 2.04% (2024)
• Malta — 9.98% (2024)

More infrastructure data for Low income

• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 1 (2025)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 220,720 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 22.26 million (2023)
• Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count — 1,359 (2024)
• Industrial design applications, resident, by count — 1,282 (2024)
• Patent applications, nonresidents — 1,155 (2024)
• Patent applications, residents — 7,341 (2024)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 4,095 (2023)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 7 million (2025)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions

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Questions people ask

What is Low income's ICT goods imports (% total goods imports)?

2.61% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2008?

It is down 1.33 percentage points from 3.93% in 2008. The highest value was 4.13% in 2010 and the lowest 2.16% in 2018.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UNCTADstat database, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), uri: http://unctadstat.unctad.org/ReportFolders/reportFolders.aspx.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.ICTG.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UNCTADstat database, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), uri: http://unctadstat.unctad.org/ReportFolders/reportFolders.aspx Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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