Nearly 100 m computers in Brazil
About 99 million computers are currently in use in Brazil, or one for
every two of the country’s inhabitants, according to a study by the
Getulio Vargas Foundation (GVF) released yesterday.
The annual study by the Applied Information Technology Center of the
GVF’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, said the figure had
doubled in four years. In 2012, 17.6 million computers are expected to
be sold and six years from now, the country will have one computer for
each of its estimated 195 million people, it added.
For each computer in the country, there are two television sets and
three telephones. The results placed Brazil well above the world average
in terms of computer, telephone and television use, said Professor
Fernando Meirelles, who coordinated the study.
The survey, based on 2,180 responses from large and medium
enterprises, also found that companies spend and invest seven percent of
their earnings on information technology, a percentage that doubled in
12 years.
The Microsoft operating system continues to dominate companies’
workstations with 91 percent or more of the total.
Brazil also ranks as the largest e-commerce market in Latin America,
with an online population of 78.5 million, according to data from the
pollster Ibope Nielsen Online.
Online commerce in Brazil grossed more than $11 billion last year, up
26 percent over the previous year, the market research firm e-bit said
last month.
AFP
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