Bhutan
Bhutan is a landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas, located in South Asia between China and India. It is a mountainous country. Bhutan is known as “Druk Yul,” or “Land of the Thunder Dragon”. The country has a population of over 727,145 and a territory of 38,394 square kilometres (14,824 sq mi) and ranks 133rd in terms of land area and 160th in population. Bhutan is a constitutional monarchy with Vajrayana Buddhism as the state religion.
General profile
Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan
National internet domain: BT
Area: 38,394 km2
Capital: Thimphu
Population: 807,610
Population growth: 1.07
Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.Life expectancy at birth: 72.08
Total years (2020year)Rule of law estimate: 0.64
Rule of Law captures perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5 (Estimate 2021)
Regulatory quality estimate: -0.31
Political stability: 0.97
Economic info
Currency: ngultrum
Unemployment: 4.33
Unemployment, total (% of total labor force)GDP (current US$): 2,315,436,303.30
GDP growth (annual %): -10.08
GDP per capita (current US$): 3,000.78
Inflation, consumer prices (annual %): 7.35
GNI (current US$): 2,172,581,768.32
The Gross National Income, GNI, formerly referred to as gross national product (GNP), measures the total domestic and foreign value added claimed by residents, at a given period in time, usually a year, expressed in current US dollars using the World Bank Atlas method. GNI comprises GDP plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from non-resident sources.Ease of doing business score: 65.97
The ease of doing business score benchmarked economies concerning their proximity to the best performance in each area measured by Doing Business for the year 2019. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from0 = lowest performance to 100 = best performance
Digital profile
Internet and social media penetration:
Individuals using the internet, total (%): 85.6 (2021)
Social media statistics: 553.6 thousand
Estimate for 2022Male internet users: 84.8 (2021)
Male internet users as a % of total male populationFacebook users: 475.9 thousand
Estimate for 2022Female internet users: 86.3 (2021)
Female Internet users as a % of total female populationInstagram users: 145.7 thousand
Estimate for 2022Households with internet access at home (%): 94.3 (2021)
Linkedin users: 90.0 thousand
Estimate for 2022Fixed broadband subscriptions: 0.4 (2021)
Total fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) refers to fixed subscriptions to high-speed access to the public internet (a TCP/IP connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s.Twitter users: 14.7 thousand
Estimate for 2022Mobile infrastructure and access:
Mobile ownership: 61.53
Mobile phone ownership as a % of total population (Estimate for 2021)Mobile Infrastructure: 70.9
Mobile Infrastructure index: High-performance mobile internet coverage availability. It includes parameters such as network coverage, performance, quality of supporting infrastructure and amount of spectrum assigned to mobile network operators (Estimate for 2021)Male mobile ownership: 86.3 (2021)
Male mobile phone ownership as a % of total male populationMobile Affordability: 60.69
Mobile Affordability index : The availability of mobile services and devices at price points that reflect the level of income across a national population. It includes parameters such as mobile tariffs, headset prices, taxation and inequality (Estimate for 2021)Female mobile ownership: No data
Female mobile phone ownership as a % of total female populationCybersecurity Index: 18.34
Cybersecurity Index (Estimate for 2021): ITU cybersecurity valueNetwork performance: 64.09
Network performance index: Quality of mobile services measured by download speed, upload speed and latencies (Estimate for 2021)Mobile download speeds: 39.84
Mobile download speeds: Average download speed for mobile users (originally in Mbit/s) (Estimate for 2021)Mobile uploads speeds: 65.55
Mobile uploads speeds: average uploads speed for mobile users (originally in Mbit/s) (Estimate for 2021)Mobile Latencies: 86.89
Mobile Latencies: Average latency for mobile users (originally in milliseconds) (Estimate for 2021)Speedtest-Broadband: 9.4
Speedtest-Broadband: The value is expressed in Mbps (Estimate for 2021)Network coverage: 80.17
Network coverage (% of total population) (Estimate for 2021)2G Coverage: 98.0
Coverage % of population (Estimate for 2021)3G Coverage: 90.0
Coverage % of population (Estimate for 2021)4G Coverage: 85.0
Coverage % of population (Estimate for 2021)5G Coverage: 3.72
Coverage % of population (Estimate for 2021)Operating system and browser market share estimate for 2022:
Operating system market share (%):
Desktop, Tablet & Console Operating System Market Share: Estimate for 2022Browser market share (%):
Browser Market Share Worldwide: Estimate for 2022Android: 62.46
Chrome: 84.2
Win10: 16.07
Safari: 8.12
iOS: 8.5
Edge: 2.12
OS X: 2.54
Firefox: 0.98
Win11: 5.5
Samsung Internet: 1.86
The UN E-Government Survey 2022:
The UN E-Government Survey is the assessment of the digital government landscape across all UN member states. The E-Government Survey is informed by over two decades of longitudinal research, with a ranking of countries based on the UN E-Government Development Index (EGDI), a combination of primary data (collected and owned by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs) and secondary data from other UN agencies.E-Government Rank: 115
Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI), a combination of primary data (collected and owned by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) and secondary data from other UN agencies. Estimate gives the country's rank.E-Government Index: 0.55
The EGDI is a composite measure of three important dimensions of e-government, namely: provision of online services, telecommunication connectivity and human capacity. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from approximately 0 to 1.E-Participation Index: 0.47
The E-Participation Index (EPI) is derived as a supplementary index to the United Nations E-Government Survey. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from approximately 0 to 1.Online Service Index: 0.6
The online services index was developed by the UN to evaluate the scope and quality of government online services. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from approximately 0 to 1.Human Capital Index: 0.53
The Human Capital Index (HCI) quantiï¬_x0081_es the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from approximately 0 to 1.Telecommunication Infrastructure Index: 0.53
Telecommunication Infrastructure Index- Telecommunication Infrastructure Index (TII) Composite Indicator that measures the countries' Telecommunication infrastructure readiness to adopt the opportunities offered by Information and Communication Technology as to enhance their competitiveness. Estimate gives the country's score ranging from approximately 0 to 1.ICT information:
ICT skills
Information economy indicators
Individuals with basic ICT skills (%): 10.9 (2021)
Share of ICT goods, % of total exports (value) 15.87 (2011)
Individuals with standard ICT skills (%): 6.8 (2021)
Share of ICT goods, % of total import (value): 2.38 (2012)
Individuals with advanced ICT skills (%): 1.4 (2021)
Most visited website: No data
The survey conducted in 2022 excluded global dominant sites (e.g., YouTube, Facebook, and Google) and search engines (e.g., Yahoo, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, Naver, and Yandex) to level the playing field and discount middle-man visits. Likewise, it did not include adult, betting, illegal streaming/downloading services, and malicious websites.
