TIRANA, Dec. 2 – Albania continues lagging behind in the ICT Development Index despite moderate progress in the past five years, according to a report by Switzerland-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies.
Albania ranked 94th out of 167 countries in the 2015 index compared to 89th in 2010, being the only country in Europe to score below the global average.
All countries in the Europe region, apart from Albania, have ICT Development Index (IDI) values above the global average of 5.03 and fall within the high and upper quartiles of the Index, reflecting the region’s high levels of economic development and gross national income per capita.
Bulgaria and Albania also stand out, with the most expensive prepaid mobile-cellular prices in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms in Europe, at PPP$ 63 and PPP$ 56 respectively, says the report.
The Measuring the Information Society Report which has been published annually since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index. The IDI 2015 captures the level of ICT developments in 167 economies worldwide and compares progress made since 2010.
