United Kingdom

Key Indicators

Income Group	High income
Regional Group	Europe
Population (Total)	66,834,405
Population as a share world total	0.87%
GDP (current US$, millions)	2,830,000
GDP as a share of world total	3.22%
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $)	48,709

Performance Overview

THE UNITED KINGDOM makes it into the top 5 in the Governance (5th) pillar, where it benefits from solid performances in all three sub-pillars: Trust (5th), Regulation (10th), and Inclusion (5th). The country is also ranked in the top 10 when it comes to Technology (7th), which is primarily driven by excellent Access (3rd) and Content (6th). A high level of SDG Contribution (3rd) boosts the Impact (13th) pillar, which is otherwise hampered by weaker performances in Economy and Quality of Life (18th in both sub-pillars). One of the main areas with scope for improvement relates to ICT usage and skills of Individuals (29th), which drags down the overall performance in the People (14th) pillar.

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GBR

Country

United Kingdom

Score

76.27

Rank

Technology

78.34

People

69.69

Governance

82.65

Impact

74.40

1. Mobile tariffs	89.21	12
2. Handset prices	80.12	8
3. Households with internet acccess	93.97	13
4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population)	99.70	17
5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions)	98.04	8
6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user	81.22	6
7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose	n/a	n/a

1. GitHub commits	69.26	10
2. Wikipedia edits	84.06	15
3. Internet domain registrations*	-	-
4. Mobile apps development	88.41	14

1. Availability of latest technologies	84.23	12
2. Company investment in emerging technology	82.43	8
3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population	62.28	16
4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP)	62.95	4
5. Robot density	26.94	22

1. Medium and high-tech industry	58.01	18
2. High-tech exports	44.37	15
3. PCT patent applications	25.88	20
4. Labour productivity per employee	61.14	25
5. Prevalence of gig economy	93.80	3

1. Happiness	87.75	13
2. Freedom to make life choices	81.44	53
3. Income inequality	72.68	51
4. Healthy life expectancy at birth	85.67	23

1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being	96.72	2
2. SDG 4: Quality Education	66.34	16
3. SDG 5: Gender Equality	74.14	68
4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy	90.03	18
5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities	96.06	5

1. Internet users	95.10	10
2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions	37.76	33
3. Use of virtual social networks	65.98	37
5. Tertiary enrolment	43.58	47
5. Adult literacy rate	n/a	n/a
6. ICT skills	73.58	28

1. Firms with website	86.35	10
2. Ease of doing business	94.31	8
3. Professionals	64.22	7
4. Technicians and associate professionals	53.07	36
5. Business use of digital tools	86.57	11
6. R&D expenditure by businesses	28.73	19

1. Government online services	95.76	6
2. Publication and use of open data	100.00	1
3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies	66.69	21
4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education	45.48	38

1. Secure Internet servers	83.71	18
2. Cybersecurity	100.00	1
3. Online access to financial account	55.84	28
4. Internet shopping	95.86	4

1. Regulatory quality	90.22	9
2. ICT regulatory environment	97.30	5
3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies	74.30	14
4. E-commerce legislation	100.00	1
5. Privacy protection by law content	31.79	66

1. E-Participation	97.53	6
2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments	94.21	20
3. Availability of local online content	90.87	11
4. Gender gap in internet use	68.19	12
5. Rural gap in use of digital payments	76.06	23

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