World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Belgium
2000
2007
High-income
group
2007
10
97
25,360
2.7
—
107
11
97
41,110
2.0
—
95
1,056
78
37,572
2.4
99
92
Belgium
Economic and social context
Population (total, million)
Urban population (% of total)
GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$)
GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %)
Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older)
Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%)
Sector structure
Separate telecommunications regulator
Status of main fixed-line telephone operator
Level of competitiona
International long distance service
Mobile telephone service
Internet service
Sector efficiency and capacity
Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP)
Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee
Telecommunications investment (% of revenue)
Sector performance
Access
Telephone lines (per 100 people)
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Internet subscribers (per 100 people)
Personal computers (per 100 people)
Households with a television set (%)
Usage
International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b
Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month)
Internet users (per 100 people)
Quality
Population covered by mobile cellular network (%)
Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.)
International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person)
Affordability
Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/month)
Price basket for mobile service (US$/month)
Price basket for Internet service (US$/month)
Price of call to United States (US$ for 3 minutes)
Trade
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports)
ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports)
ICT service exports (% of total service exports)
Applications
ICT expenditure (% of GDP)
E-government Web measure indexc
Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, Dec. 2008)
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07
Current US$
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
Yes
Mixed
Yes
Mixed
C
P
C
C
P
C
0
2000
2002
2004
2006 2007
Belgium
High-income group
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07
Number per 100 people
120
1.9
374
33.7
3.0
690
12.3
3.1
747
14.3
90
60
30
0
49.1
54.9
11.2
22.4
99
43.9
101.1
26.9
41.7
99
50.0
100.4
25.8
67.4
98
26.4
105
29.3
—
158
65.9
14.0
353
65.7
99
12.5
1,829
100
94.9
24,945
99
82.6
18,242
22.0
—
—
1.67
33.1
18.2
37.6
0.75
26.1
13.0
22.8
0.81
6.2
7.6
7.4
3.7
4.8
8.7
15.2
14.6
7.0
—
—
33.2
5.8
0.54
250.2
6.7
0.60
662.6
2000
2002
2004
2006 2007
Telephone lines
Mobile cellular subscriptions
Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07
US$/month
40
30
20
10
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
Belgium
High-income group
2007
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07
Percentage of total service exports
10
8
6
4
2
0
2000
2002
2004
2006 2007
Belgium
High-income group
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: Global Insight/WITSA, IMF, ITU, Netcraft, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics
Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources.
Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. — Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal.
a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0–1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
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