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Lebanon ranks 56th globally and third regionally in e-commerce
25-10-2017
Lebanon ranked, 56th among of 144 countries, globally, 12th among 38 middle to high income countries and third among Arab countries, according to the 2017 edition of the UNCTAD Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index. Lebanon’s global ranking fell by 7 points when calculating the same number of countries enlisted in the 2016 and 2017 survey. UNCTAD has developed the indicator to measure the preparedness of countries to engage in e-commerce, in line with 7 indices which are: internet penetration rate, number of secure internet servers per one million people, frequency rate of electronic payments and the reliability of postal services. The B2C E-commerce Index has shown that the rate of internet usage in Lebanon was 76%, the 35 highest rate in the world and the fourth highest among the middle to high income countries and the Arab countries covered by the survey, and higher than the global rate which is 52%. The index further revealed that there are some 58 secure internet providers per one million people in Lebanon, compared to 55.7 servers per one million worldwide, 56.4 servers for middle to high income countries and 44.8 servers per one million people in the Arab region. Finally, the index indicated that Lebanon made 70 points in the Integrated Index for Postal Development as compared to a global average of (53.7), middle to high income countries (49.3) and an Arab rate of (56.1), where Lebanon ranked 62 globally, 15 among middle to high income countries and third regionally. You can find the complete results of the index in English, on the following link: : http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/tn_unctad_ict4d09_en.pdf (
L’Orient Le Jour, October 24, 2017)
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