China
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | Upper-middle income |
| Regional Group | Asia & Pacific |
| Population (Total) | 1,397,715,000 |
| Population as a share world total | 18.21% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 14,300,000 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 16.35% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 16,784 |
Performance Overview
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CHN
Country
China
Score
58.44
Rank
40
Technology
49.80
People
58.47
Governance
66.33
Impact
59.17
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 79.82 | 26 |
| 2. Handset prices | 46.73 | 63 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 59.46 | 77 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 99.40 | 21 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 98.47 | 7 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 64.08 | 83 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | 96.25 | 29 |
| 1. GitHub commits | 3.39 | 67 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | n/a | n/a |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 62.76 | 69 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | n/a | n/a |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 59.71 | 33 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 58.38 | 20 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 33.77 | 23 |
| 5. Robot density | 39.65 | 21 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 52.90 | 26 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 59.57 | 9 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 9.90 | 29 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 18.11 | 82 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | n/a | n/a |
| 1. Happiness | 48.18 | 87 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 93.89 | 11 |
| 3. Income inequality | 63.14 | 69 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 74.65 | 35 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 83.61 | 25 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 100.00 | 1 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 72.13 | 81 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 65.90 | 103 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 40.53 | 100 |
| 1. Internet users | 53.24 | 89 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 37.16 | 35 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 72.16 | 20 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 36.66 | 59 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | 95.97 | 38 |
| 6. ICT skills | 65.37 | 43 |
| 1. Firms with website | 65.71 | 46 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 84.37 | 30 |
| 3. Professionals | n/a | n/a |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | n/a | n/a |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | n/a | n/a |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 42.53 | 12 |
| 1. Government online services | 90.30 | 12 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 19.64 | 71 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | n/a | n/a |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 43.37 | 42 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 52.67 | 66 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 88.84 | 29 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 57.53 | 26 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 58.06 | 28 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 48.44 | 81 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 44.02 | 126 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | n/a | n/a |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | n/a | n/a |
| 1. E-Participation | 96.30 | 9 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 58.25 | 80 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 63.41 | 60 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | n/a | n/a |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 64.25 | 71 |