Niger's ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) was 2.1% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.66 percentage points from 2.76% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 2.1% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 3.41% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 2.76% | 2014 |
| Highest | 5.17% | 2003 |
| Lowest | 1.29% | 2022 |
| Average since 2015 | 2.5% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 1.74% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Niger's ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) fell 0.77 percentage points on 2023 (from 2.87% to 2.1%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was +0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.01 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.2 percentage points in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.18 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 34% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Niger had the 106th highest value of the 120 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Niger | 2.1% | 2024 |
| World | 13.42% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.2% | 2024 |
| Low income | 2.61% | 2019 |
Closest to Niger in the 2024 ranking
- Antigua and Barbuda — 103rd of 120: 2.19%
- Nigeria — 104th of 120: 2.19%
- Albania — 105th of 120: 2.12%
- Senegal — 107th of 120: 2.1%
- Mozambique — 108th of 120: 2.06%
- Lebanon — 109th of 120: 2.04%
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 25 values
| Year | ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 2.87 |
| 2022 | 1.29 |
| 2021 | 1.81 |
| 2020 | 1.51 |
| 2019 | 3.41 |
| 2018 | 2.24 |
| 2017 | 2.22 |
| 2016 | 3.91 |
| 2015 | 3.66 |
| 2014 |
ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) in nearby economies
- Angola — 2.72% (2024)
- Benin — 2.37% (2024)
- Botswana — 2.77% (2023)
- Burkina Faso — 1.38% (2024)
- Burundi — 1.84% (2023)
- Cabo Verde — 2.74% (2024)
- Cameroon — 1.66% (2023)
- Central African Republic — 3.23% (2024)
- Comoros — 1.42% (2021)
- Congo, Rep. — 1.78% (2023)
More infrastructure data for Niger
- Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 0.43 (2024)
- Fixed telephone subscriptions — 117,563 (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions — 16.38 million (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 60.59 (2024)
- Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 165 (2023)
- Air transport, passengers carried — 5,775 (2023)
- Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 0.28 (2023)
- ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$70.02 million (2024)
- ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) — 28.27% (2024)
- Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Niger's ICT goods imports (% total goods imports)?
- 2.1% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
- It is up 0.36 percentage points from 1.74% in 2000. The highest value was 5.17% in 2003 and the lowest 1.29% in 2022.
- How does Niger rank?
- 106th highest of 120 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) unusual for Niger?
- In 2024, Niger's ICT goods imports (% total goods imports) fell 0.77 percentage points on 2023 (from 2.87% to 2.1%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was +0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
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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