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The affordability of ICT services 2023



           Table 1: Largest price declines from 2022 to 2023, in percentage points
                                                      % price changes in terms of
            Basket                                                               % price changes in terms of PPP$
                                                           GNI per capita
            Data-only mobile-broadband basket       Global median: –0.2        Global median: –2.9
                                                    Zimbabwe (–13.7),          Haiti (–23.3),
                                                    Haiti (–10.3),             Seychelles (–11.1),
                                                    Lebanon (–7.8)             Namibia (–10.8)

            Mobile-cellular low-usage basket        Global median: –0.04       Global median: 3.8
                                                    Chad (–8.8),               Timor-Leste (–24.4),
                                                    Central African Rep. (–7.5),   Dominica (–24.3),
                                                    Marshall Islands (–4.6)    Cabo Verde (-18.5)
            Mobile data and voice low-consumption basket  Global median: –0.2   Global median: 1.9
                                                    Liberia (–11.5),           Cabo Verde (–41.8),
                                                    Central African Rep. (–10.3),    Timor-Leste (–26.2),
                                                    Cabo Verde (–7.8)          Thailand (–17.8)

            Mobile data and voice high-consumption basket Global median: –0.4   Global median: –3.4
                                                    Zimbabwe (–21.3),          Cabo Verde (–101.4),
                                                    Liberia (–18.3),           Seychelles (–42.4),
                                                    Cabo Verde (–18.1)         Timor-Leste (–39.3)

            Fixed-broadband basket                  Global median: –0.3        Global median: 7.9
                                                    Malawi (–16.8),            Eswatini (–82.3),
                                                    Tanzania (–16.3),          Timor-Leste (–51.1),
                                                    Eswatini (–11.5)           Tanzania (–43.7)

           Source: ITU
           price stabilized from 2019 to 2023 with a slight increase   both expressed in local currency, and year-on-year
           from 39 to 40 PPP$. Nevertheless, regional differences   improvements can be attributed to both figures. Table 1
           remain significant: at 75 PPP$ in Africa it typically cost   presents the three economies where affordability
           more than twice as much as in Europe (35 PPP$).    improved the most (in terms of GNI per capita) and where
                                                              price levels (measured in terms of PPP$) declined the
           Affordability is a reflection of the price of the basket   most for each basket. These changes, expressed as a
           (numerator) relative to the GNI per capita (denominator),
                                                              percentage, by far outperform the global median.










































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