Russia: Size of Domestic IT Market

Overview

This page is a compilation of the most important facts about the Russian ICT situation.  Russia is still building its ICT infrastructure, policy, and legal environment.  Despite this, the Russian ICT market shows promising 15 - 18% growth per year.

Key Stats*

Population                                                          147,000,000

Rural population (% of total population) 1999         22.66%

GDP per Capita (PPP)                                           US$8,213

Main Telephone lines per 100 inhabitants               21.82

Internet hosts per 10,000 inhabitants                    22.22

Personal computers per 100 inhabitants                 4.29

Piracy Rate                                                         79%

Percent of PCs connected to Internet                     5.18%

Internet users per host                                        9.49

Internet users per 100 inhabitants                         2.11

Cell phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants             2.22

Average monthly cost for 20 hours

of internet access                                        US$14.83

*Key Stats are from source (12)

Total IT spending

• Domestic Internet Markets have grown 9% to more than $4 billion and will grow 2-3 times by 2005 (9)
• 3.7% of Russia’s gross domestic product is invested in ICT (8)

Telecommunication Infrastructure

• Phone lines per 1000: 218.20
• Cell phone usage per 1000: 22.21

Computing and Internet Diffusion

• Number of websites: 16,964,567
• Web Users as a percent of the population: 5%
• PCs per 1000 people: 48.3

IT Workforce

• Literacy: 99%
• Percent of adults who are college graduates: 20% (60)
• Number of CS/CE/MIS post secondary programs
  • Admissions in computer related degrees in 2000: 25,000 (60)
• Percent of Russian software companies who employ PhDs: 77.4%
  • In 45.8% of those, PhDs make up about 10% of staff (60)

Domestic Productions

• Software Exports for 2001 were close to $150M (57)
• Some estimate Russian IT Outsourcing to be close to $350M by 2005 (57)

IT Legal Environment

• Piracy Rate: 79%