OECD Report: China IT Exports Increase
The value of information communications and technology exports in China increased at an average rate of 31 percent per year between 2004 and 2007, according to the 2009 fact book of international statistics published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Since 2004, China's IT exports have exceeded those of the United States. Other countries with higher ICT exports include Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Poland, Iceland, United States, Japan, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, France and Ireland. The report also found that spending on research and development in China has been growing at a faster rate than the country's GDP or from .9 percent in 2000 to 1.5 percent in 2007. In 2006 and 2007, Finland, Japan, Korea and Sweden were the only OECD countries in which the R&D-to-GDP ratio exceeded 3 percent, according to the report.
R&D spending has been growing the fastest in Iceland and Turkey with an annual growth rate of more than 10 percent. The average R&D rate is 2.3 percent. The report found that R&D expenditure relative to GDP has has decreased slightly in the United States (2.7 percent in 2007) and in the EU it has remained relatively stable (1.8 percent in 2006). The OECD report also found that computer penetration rates are the highest in Iceland, the Netherlands, Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Korea, where 80 percent or more of households had access to a home computer by 2007. The number of households with access between 2001 and 2007 increased sharply in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany. Countries with low computer penetration rates include Turkey, Mexico, Greece, the Czech Republic and Portugal. -- Winter Casey
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