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The Contribution of Iot To Economic Growth
The Contribution of Iot To Economic Growth
Authors www.gsmaintelligence.com
Governments can encourage further economic growth: the right policies can
4 stimulate IoT adoption by businesses – this can sharpen their countries’ business
sector competitiveness and result in higher tax revenues
Contents 1 Why is IoT important for economic growth?
4 Our Methodology
Changes in productivity, 10-year moving
Productivity growth average of 23 countries
is slowing 5%
4%
• There is a broader slowdown in
economic productivity occurring in 3%
-2%
• IoT can support businesses across the
-3%
industry to improve their productivity
Source Bergeaud, A., Cette, G. and Lecat, R. (2016): "Productivity Trends in
Advanced Countries between 1890 and 2012," Review of Income and Wealth, vol.
62(3), pages 420–444
IoT can change the way businesses operate
• By deploying connected devices Ordinary factory Smart factory
across their operations, businesses
• Production line • Monitoring – on the
are able to make improvements on
managed manually performance of
their current approach
• Extensive manual equipment and
• The example on the right describes monitoring of processes predictive maintenance
the advantages of manufacturing • Manual entry for stock • Tracking – volume,
firms moving from ordinary location location of stock, equip.
production processes to smart • Manual documents for • Quality assurance -
production processes inventory reducing production
• Assessing faults by waste by assessing and
• Replicated across the economy,
audit acting on product quality
these changes can lead to
improved business productivity and
therefore economic growth
IoT connections to grow Global number of IoT Connections,
billions
to 25 billion by 2025 25
22
• Industrial IoT connections will lead overall 20
growth, on average 21% per year between 17 14
2017 and 2025 15 12
•
10
13
As a result of this significant growth, IoT 8
11
connections for industry will account for over 7
9 6
half of connections by 2025 – 14 billion 5
4
world wide 10 11 11
9
• This will lead a significant change in the way 5 6 7 8
4 Our Methodology
Global productivity impact Economic impact of IoT on business
productivity
already $175bn, 0.2% of $ billions
GDP
0.34% GDP 371
• Productivity benefits will be worth over
$370 billion per annum in 2025 – 0.34%
of global GDP
• This is just one part of the story of IoT’s
economic contribution:
• IoT companies will generate over $1 175 0.2% GDP
trillion in revenues by 2025
• Beyond these impacts on businesses,
there will be considerable benefits to
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
consumers as connections reach
Source GSMA Intelligence
over 10 billion worldwide Source: GSMA Intelligence
Governments are set to Global fiscal impact of IoT-driven productivity
growth
gain fiscally too $ billions
47
• Productivity gains by the wider economy 39
43
0.4% 0.5%
90
0.4%
80
0.4%
economic output
0.3%
70
•
0.3%
92 0.2%
40
0.1%
0.1%
adoption than other sectors 0.2%
0.1%
30
38
0.1%
7 0.1%
15 10 10 4
0 0.0%
significantly Manufacturing
(incl.
Other
enterprises
Retail Transportation Public Sector
& Logistics
Utilities Healthcare
Consumer
Electronics and Source GSMA Intelligence
Automotive)
US and China contributing Economic impact of IoT on business
productivity, 2018
significantly $ billions (% of national GDP)
•
0.27%
Whilst growth will be strong in some Asia Pacific 0.20% 0.20%
MENA 0.18%
developing regions, it is from a low Latin America 0.17%
base Europe 0.16%
CIS 0.12% 0.11%
• These regions need a more
Sub-Saharan 0.06%
widespread adoption across different Africa
industries to benefit 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
4 Our Methodology
Enterprises in developing Operating cost savings from using IoT
reported by enterprises, simple average
countries making significant across sectors
% of gross operating costs
savings
7%
• Globally, enterprises report savings of 6%
between 4% and 6% of operating costs on
average. 4% 4%
4 Our Methodology
Our modelling approach relies on three key inputs
Economic
Productivity of IoT
Operating cost Businesses cost reductions from using IoT devices using outputs from
savings the GSMA intelligence IoT Enterprise Survey Q4 2018
X
IoT Business The share of businesses in the economy that are using IoT: these are
Adoption Rate based on assumptions from existing research
X
The size of the sector’s contribution to the economy based on
Sector value add calculations from OECD Input-Output table
Modelling Principles Key sources of inputs
The model is based on the following principles: Operating cost savings