The impact of mobile Internet technology on

global economy and social systems

The numbers

Mobile Internet penetration worldwide has doubled from 18 percent in 2011 to 36

percent today.

Mobile Internet usage could generate global economic impact of $3.7 trillion to $10.8
trillion turnover per year by 2025.

Half of this potential value could come from using mobile devices to spread Internet
access in developing regions.

In China there were 632 million Internet users as of the middle of 2014, or about 45
percent of the total population. In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile penetration is about 60
percent, compared with less than 2 percent for fixed-line access.

Data connections

Health care

Mobile technologies in health

care process phases

Education

Business

Today, 90 percent of the more than three trillion transactions made every year globally are cash
transactions, and McKinsey analyses show that an electronic transaction can save 50 to 70 percent
of processing costs over a paper transaction.

Frontline workers, for example, could use mobile Internet devices to manage equipment and
physical assets more effectively, monitor supply chains, maintain the condition of vital
equipment, and provide post-sale services

The mobile Internet attracts substantial investment. For example, leading app-store operators
paid developers more than $15 billion between June 2013 and July 2014.

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