Philippine IT Statistics (early 2004)

Chin Wong has an article opening up a discussion on number of .ph websites there are. The figure he has is 125,000. The figure I had in 2004 was 30,851. I also had a 2004 estimate for number of Philippine-related websites: 181,403 (in 2004).

From my digital archives, I thus resurrect some Philippine IT stats. These figures are from my research when I helped write a paper in 1st Quarter 2004. Read the notes further below for links (expect some loose liks) and other explanations.

Philippine facts
Total population (2002 projection): 79,503,675 a
Rural population as a percentage of total population: 42.32 % b
Key economic sectors: Agriculture, Services, Industry c
Literacy in national languages: 93.9% d
Functional literacy: 83.79 e
Computer ownership per 100 inhabitants: 1.93 f
Telephone lines per 100 inhabitants (2001): 8.91 g
Internet hosts per 10,000 inhabitants: 2.54 h
Internet café/telecentre per 10,000 inhabitants: 0.165 i
Internet users per 100 inhabitants: 4.27 j
Cell phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants: 15.897 k
Number of websites in the national language: 1,814 l
Number of websites in English and other languages: 181,403 m
National bandwidth within the country:
* Partial aggregate data: 31Mbps o
National bandwidth to and from the country:
* Partial aggregate data: 367 Mbps p
Ratio of incoming and outgoing Internet traffic volume:
80% incoming: 20% outgoing q

Sources for the chart “Philippines facts”
(a) Population projection 2002 http://www.doh.gov.ph/data_stat/html/population.htm
(b) As of 1999, Global Competitiveness Report (2001-2002) Harvard http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/profiles/Philippines.pdf
Definition: http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/articles/con_urbanrural.htm
(c) National Economic and Development Authority (31 January 2002) 2001 Full Year Economic Performance (link)
(d) National Statistical and Coordination Board http://www.nscb.gov.ph/secstat/d_educ.htm
Basic or simple literacy is defined by the National Statistics Office (NSO) as the ability to read and write with understanding simple messages in any language or
dialect.
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/glossary/educ.htm
(e) NSO Functional literacy http://www.census.gov.ph/data/sectordata/1994/fl9406li.txt
Functional literacy is a significantly higher level of literacy which includes not only reading and writing skills but also numeracy skills. The skills must be sufficiently advanced to enable the individual to participate fully and
efficiently in activities commonly occurring in his life situation that require a reasonable capability of communicating by written language.
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/glossary/educ.htm
(f) Global Competitiveness Report (2001-2002) Harvard
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/profiles/Philippines.pdf
(g) As of 2001. National Telecommunications Commission.
Total lines: 6,938,762 (2001)
http://www.ntc.gov.ph/images/consumer/wireline.jpg
(h) Global Competitiveness Report (2001-2002) – Harvard
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/profiles/Philippines.pdf
(i) Based on 1,312 estimated cafés in 12 major cities in the Philippines
http://www.digitalfilipino.com/content.asp?FileName= percent5Cstatistics
percent5Cdemographics.ini
Denominator used is 79.5 million Filipinos
(j) Based on 3.4 million Internet users. Internet Users Study by ACNielsen Consulting, June 2002 (as reported by ITNetcentral)
http://www.itnetcentral.com.article.asp?id=10562
(k) As of June 2002. Based on 12,638,375 mobile phone subscribers as reported by Computerworld 2 September 2002, p.12. Denominator used is 79.5 million Filipinos.
(l) Through an e-mail interview, Ken Ilio (webmaster and owner of Filipinolinks.com since 1986), the trend is one national language site per 100 English sites.
(m) (i) Statistics from Yehey.com indicate that it has a ratio of 5.88 Philippine related websites per .ph website.
(ii) Figures from http://www.isc.org/ds/WWW-200201/dist-bynum.html indicate that there are 30,851 .ph websites.
(iii) Multiply total .ph websites to ratio and we have an estimate of Philippines related websites = 181,403 websites.
(n) National bandwidth within the country: 31Mbps (Partial aggregate data).
There are three Internet exchanges in the Philippines. The figure above does not include private peering of ISPs (ISP1 connecting to ISP2 without going through an Internet exchange).
References: Telephone and e-mail interviews http://www.apia.org/nl8/IXPhilippine.html published January 2002.
(o) National bandwidth to and from the country: 367 Mbps (Partial aggregate data)
(p) 80 percent incoming: 20 percent outgoing (As per e-mail interview)

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