One might expect the United States to be a world leader in technology, however, Denmark, Germany, Japan, and Sweden meet or exceed United States expenditures on technology. Only Italy has lower percentages of households without personal computers and internet users.
TECHNOLOGY
| COLOR CODING | |
|---|---|
| Green | Ranked first for statistic |
| Red | Ranked last for statistic |
| World Economic Forum 2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology Expenditure | % Households w/Computers | % Population Using Internet | Mobile Broadband Subscriptions Per 100 | Fixed Broadband Subscribers Per 100 | Broadband Performance Rates | |
| Australia | 2.3 | 85.6 | 86.5 | 134.1 | 32.2 | 88.3 |
| Canada | 2.0 | 87.6 | 91.0 | 76.7 | 38.6 | 141.9 |
| Denmark | 3.0 | 95.0 | 97.6 | 136.7 | 44.1 | 239.9 |
| France | 2.2 | 82.8 | 82.0 | 91.6 | 44.8 | 97.7 |
| Germany | 2.8 | 90.6 | 89.7 | 81.6 | 41.1 | 107.5 |
| Italy | 1.3 | 74.0 | 74.4 | 94.5 | 28.0 | 82.3 |
| Japan | 3.4 | 83.3 | 84.6 | 188.9 | 32.2 | 83.0 |
| Netherlands | 1.8 | 97.6 | 94.7 | 90.9 | 42.4 | 196.1 |
| Norway | 1.8 | 95.4 | 96.5 | 99.7 | 41.3 | 269.0 |
| Sweden | 3.6 | 93.4 | 92.1 | 123.0 | 39.1 | 505.6 |
| United Kingdom | 1.8 | 90.8 | 94.9 | 96.9 | 39.6 | 449.1 |
| United States | 2.8 | 81.5 | 87.3 | 142.5 | 35.6 | 126.5 |
SOURCES:
Technology Expenditure
As a percent of GDP for most recent year (2005-10). Current and capital expenditures (both public and private) on creative work undertaken systematically to increase knowledge and the use of knowledge for new applications. It covers basic research, applied research and experimental development.
Households w/ personal computer, percent of population using internet: World Bank, 2016
Columns 3 – 6: World Economic Forum, The Global Competitiveness Report 2019
Internet users, % of population
Mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100
Fixed broadband subscribers per 100
Broadband performance rates
Internet bandwidth in kilobytes per second per user. 2018.