The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) of the UAE has published its Digital Lifestyle in the UAE 2022 report.
The report has revealed that the UAE is among the world’s leading countries in various digital life indices.
According to the state news agency, WAM, the TDRA report found that the UAE ranked first globally in social media usage, second globally, and first in the Arab region in internet usage, and the ninth worldwide and the first in the Arab region. in electronic commerce, based on figures from relevant international reports.
The United Arab Emirates also ranked first globally in terms of mobile internet speed, with the country’s average internet speed being 134.48 megabytes per second (Mbps), while the world average is 30 Mbps.
The report also noted that the United Arab Emirates is the first country in the region to establish a digital government in 2001.
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Other key findings of the report showed that the UAE was classified…
13th globally in terms of home internet speed, with the average internet speed in the country reaching 124.7 Mbps compared to the world average of 63.46 Mbps Second globally in terms of internet usage Internet at a rate of 99 percent compared to the world average of 62.5 percent, indicating that the number of Internet users in the UAE is 9.935 million, 12th globally in terms of time spent using of mobile Internet in four hours and 35 minutes, compared to the world average of three hours and 43 minutes. The country was also ranked 11th globally in terms of time spent using the Internet. 10th globally in terms of average time spent using the internet across all devices, be it computers or mobile phones, averaging eight hours and 36 minutes, compared to global. average of six hours and 58 minutes First globally in terms of average time spent on social media per capita at 106 percent, compared to the world average of 58.4 percent. The United Arab Emirates has also surpassed the population’s participation in social networks, the global rate by 200 percent. Among the top 20 countries in terms of use of digital video as a source of learning at 50 percent, it was ranked in the top 10 countries in terms of sharing. visual digital blogs at 27.6% Among the top 10 countries in electronic gaming at 90% Among the top 10 countries in terms of the percentage (11.4%) of the population that owns cryptocurrencies Among the top 20 countries to globally in terms of the percentage of the population undergoing telemedicine at a rate of 26.4% Ninth globally in e-commerce, with an average annual per capita share of digital spending in the country of about US$3,775, in compared to the world average of $1,766 14th globally in weekly online shopping, with 59 percent of the population buying their necessities online weekly 13th in terms of weekly online shopping, using mobile phones, with 32.4 percent percent of the UAE population buying their ne eds by phone online weekly Among the top 20 countries in terms of digital content, with 68.1 percent of the population buying div digital content erso on the internet, and ranked ninth globally in terms of weekly household food purchases, with 33.4 percent of the UAE population purchasing their food needs online on a weekly basis.
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12th globally in time spent on social media at four hours and 35 minutes, and ranked 11th globally in terms of average social media platforms used Top 20 in terms of use of social media to search brands with 48.8 percent; it ranked 13th globally in using social media for business purposes at 28 percent. Fifth globally for Facebook ad share in the UAE at 82.5% compared to 34.1% globally, and fifth globally for YouTube social ad share, which reached 93.4% compared to a global rate of 37.7% Sixth globally in Instagram ad share, reaching 60.2% compared to a global rate of 23.9%, and ranked 2nd globally in Tik Tok ad share, reaching 81.3 percent compared to the global rate of 15.9 percent 3rd global in LinkedIn ad share, reaching 69 percent percent compared to the world average of 14.6 percent, as well as eighth globally in Snapchat ad share, reaching 37.2 percent compared to the world average of 9 percent
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Source: gulfbusiness.com