Without minerals or other natural resources, and economically small in size with an under-developed
Communications | |||||||||
Country | Newspapers | Radios | TV Sets a | Cable subscribers a | Mobile Phones a | Fax Machines a | Personal Computers a | Internet Hosts b | Internet Users b |
1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1999 | 1999 | |
Gambia | 2 | 168 | 3 | N/A | 4 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.02 | 3 |
United States | 215 | 2,146 | 847 | 244.3 | 256 | 78.4 | 458.6 | 1,508.77 | 74,100 |
Nigeria | 24 | 223 | 66 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 5.7 | 0.00 | 100 |
Guinea-Bissau | 5 | 44 | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0.4 | N/A | 0.13 | 2 |
a Data are from International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report 1999 and are per 1,000 people. | |||||||||
b Data are from the Internet Software Consortium ( http://www.isc.org ) and are per 10,000 people. | |||||||||
SOURCE: World Bank. World Development Indicators 2000. |
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