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Digital Economy Report 2024 - UNCTAD
July 18 , 2024
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- The Digital Economy Report 2024 underscores the urgent need for environmentally sustainable and inclusive digitalization strategies.
- Information and communications technology (ICT) networks account for an estimated 6% to 12% of global electricity use.
- Annual smartphone shipments have more than doubled since 2010, hitting 1.2 billion in 2023.
- Internet of things (IoT) devices are projected to surge 2.5 times from 2023 to 39 billion by 2029.
- New data from 43 countries, shows e-commerce sales grew nearly 60% from 2016 to 2022, to reach $27 trillion.
- Waste from screens and small IT equipment rose 30% between 2010 and 2022, reaching 10.5 million tons.
- The ICT sector emitted an estimated 0.69 to 1.6 gigatons of CO2 equivalents in 2020, corresponding to 1.5% to 3.2% of global GHG emissions.
- Phones used 10 elements from the periodic table in 1960, 27 in 1990 and 63 in 2021.
- Demand for cobalt, graphite and lithium is expected to increase by 500% by 2050
- Worldwide, data centres are estimated to have consumed as much energy as France in 2022 – 460 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity.
- Bitcoin mining's global energy consumption rose 34 times between 2015 and 2023.
- Developing countries generate less than 1 kilogram of digitalization-related waste per person compared to 3.25 kilograms for developed countries.
- The global market for electronics recycling is expected to grow from $37 billion in 2022 to an estimated $108 billion by 2030.
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