IDI: Bahrain ranks as first Arab country

The Kingdom of Bahrain has ranked as the first Arab country in the annual report of the International Communication Union (ITU)’s Information Development Index (IDI).
The index classifies 166 countries according to their level of accessibility to IT technology.
The list of top thirty countries included high-income countries around the world such as Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Japan, Macau, China, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA, according to the report.
The report that there will be an estimated seven billion mobile services subscriptions by the end of 2014 or equivalent to the total number of world population. Many people have more than one subscription number, the survey found. The growth indicate a slight actual improvement in accessibility of countries below the pyramid. The report said that about 450 million persons around the world who live in remote areas still do not have access to cellular mobile phone services.