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This
page looks at digital divides in Central and Southern America,
including the Caribbean.
It covers -
measures
As of 2004 population (m) and GDP (US$bn purchasing power
parity) for selected states in the Americas was -
State
Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
USA
Uruguay
Venezuela
|
Population
0.1
39
0.3
0.3
0.3
8.7
184
32
15
42
4
11
8.8
13
6
0.1
14
0.7
7.6
6.8
2.7
105
5.3
3
6.1
27
0.4
293
3.4
25
|
GDP
0.75
435
5.01
4.30
1.28
21
1375
958
154
263
35
32
52
45
30
0.44
56
2
12
17
10
941
11
18
28
146
1.7
10,990
43
117 |
Australia's
GDP (PPP) was US$571 billion.
An ITU report for 2003 identifies 'main' landlines and aggregate
subscribers (landline and mobile) -
| state |
lines
per 100 people |
total
subscribers (m) |
Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
USA
Uruguay
Venezuela |
46.8
21.9
41.5
49.6
11.2
7.14
22.3
62.9
23.0
20.0
25.1
3.49
11.5
11.9
11.5
31.6
7.05
9.15
1.57
4.81
16.9
14.6
3.20
12.9
4.61
6.71
15.1
62.1
27.9
11.2
|
0.07
14.5
0.24
0.27
0.09
2.01
73.7
33.1
9.91
14.9
1.49
0.58
3.00
3.94
1.90
0.04
2.43
0.16
0.27
0.65
1.84
40.9
0.37
0.91
2.04
4.74
0.24
340
1.59
9.30
|
and
internet hosts (per 10,000 inhabitants) and personal computers
(per 100 inhabitants) -
state
Antigua
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
USA
Uruguay
Venezuela |
hosts
211
200
9
7
88
8
179
1,011
137
26
25
1
82
2
6
1
16
6
3
5
128
13
23
15
24
1
5,549
257
14
|
PCs
8.20
10.4
12.7
2.28
7.48
48.7
11.9
4.93
19.7
3.18
3.11
2.52
13.2
1.44
2.73
1.36
5.37
8.20
2.79
3.83
3.46
4.30
4.55
65.8
11.0
6.09
|
The
Transparency
International 2004 Corruption Perceptions Index ranked
selected American states as follows (with Sweden and Australia
at 6 and 9 respectively) -
state
Canada
USA
Chile
Barbados
Uruguay
Costa Rica
Suriname
El Salvador
Trinidad & Tobago
Brazil
Belize
Colombia
Cuba
Panama
Mexico
Peru
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Argentina
Ecuador
Honduras
Venezuela
Bolivia
Guatemala
Haiti
|
rank
12
17
20
21
28
41
49
51
51
59
60
60
62
62
64
67
74
87
97
108
112
114
114
122
122
145 |
The
UNDP report
for 2004 suggested that life expectancy at birth and adult
literacy (%, ages 15 plus) was -
state
Antigua
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
USA
Uruguay
Venezuela |
expectancy
73
74
67
77
71
63
68
79
76
72
78
76
66
70
70
65
65
63
49
68
75
73
69
74
70
69
71
77
75
73
|
literacy
85
97
95
99
76
86
86
100
95
92
95
96
84
91
79
94
69
96
51
80
87
90
75
92
91
85
94
100
97
94 |
Latin America
An overview of developments in Latin America is provided
in Larry Press' 2001 Surveying the Latin American Infrastructure
(PDF)
and other papers in The Future of the Information Revolution
In Latin America (here)
edited by Gary Treverton & Lee Mizell, Martin Hilbert's
2001 paper (PDF)
on Latin America on its path into the digital age: where
are we? and his From industrial economics to digital
economics: an introduction to the transition (PDF).
For perspectives on the uptake of e-commerce within
Latin America see the 2001 paper by Juan Palacios on Globalization
of E-Commerce: Growth and Impacts in Mexico (PDF),
Bj�rn Wellenius' 2001 Closing the Rural Communication
Access Gap: Chile 1995-2002 (PDF)
and the 2001 paper by Paulo Bastos Tigre on Globalization
& E-Commerce: Growth and Impacts in Brazil (PDF).
the Caribbean
As the figures above suggest, there are substantial disparities
across and within the Caribbean states.
High teledensity in some states partly reflects infrastructure
for the tourist economy, often with a large number of lines
in hotels/resorts and lower penetration in urban slums or
rural regions.
Some 80% of Haiti's roughly eight million citizens live
on less than a dollar a day; 85% may be illiterate.
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