Measuring the digital economy in terms of its value-added contribution to economy-wide Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is becoming an increasingly common approach in assessing the role of the digital industries. The following tables contain indicators quantifying the size of the digital economy calculated using a measurement framework which is fundamentally rooted in input-output analysis. This framework makes use of national accounts and views the digital economy within the context of GDP. It considers the value-added contribution of the digital economy to comprise of the GDP of the digital industry as well as the portion of the GDP of non-digital industry that enables production in the digital industry.
Using this framework, the digital economy have been computed for 16 economies across Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific, including Australia. For details on the definition of variables see "ADB DE Measure Framework Data Dictionary".
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