Description
The information industries, and the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in particular, are the backbone of digital transformation and are essential to support further digital innovation. This indicator combines the value added generated by domestic information industries with the value added generated upstream by other domestic industries to meet final demand for information industries’ goods and services via domestic interconnections and participation in global value chains (see notes). For example, meeting global demand for smartphones requires the production of basic metals, glass and inputs from non-information business services. A country or region’s information industries footprint is expressed as a share of the world total.
