{"id":385280,"date":"2025-04-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=385280"},"modified":"2025-04-02T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:28:39","slug":"gcc-countries-advance-in-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/gcc-countries-advance-in-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"GCC countries advance in digital economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The countries of the <strong>Gulf Cooperation Council<\/strong> (GCC) have placed great emphasis on <strong>digitalization<\/strong> as a means to drive innovation and stimulate economic growth, according to a study released on Tuesday (1) by the International Monetary Fund (<strong>IMF<\/strong>). The bloc is composed of Arab nations Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysis indicates that these nations have incorporated ambitious digitalization strategies into their economic transformation agendas, with defined targets, and provides an overview of the goals set by each country. According to the document, in 2021 the digital economy (DE) accounted for 2% of <strong>Oman<\/strong>\u2019s real gross domestic product, with the country aiming to step it up to 10% by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>Qatar<\/strong>, the digital economy accounted for 4.5% of the non-oil GDP in 2017, with a target to reach 7.8% by 2030. In <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong>, the DE contributed 11.5% to real GDP in 2018, with the goal of reaching 16% in 2025. The IMF\u2019s analysis highlights that in the UAE, the digital economy represented 9.7% in 2022, with a target to grow it to 19.4% by 2032.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the digitalization of government services, the report says that <strong>Bahrain<\/strong> aims to offer 200 types of services in this format by 2026, while <strong>Kuwait<\/strong> targets 90% digitalized services by 2027. In Qatar, the goal is to have 90% of government services digitalized by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oman<\/strong> aims to move up from 50<sup>th<\/sup> place in the United Nations E-Government Development Index in 2020 to 10<sup>th<\/sup> place by 2040. In the same ranking, <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> seeks to rise from 31<sup>st<\/sup> place in 2022 to 5<sup>th<\/sup> place by 2030. The <strong>UAE<\/strong> has an ambitious goal of fully digitalizing all its government services\u2014100%\u2014by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>To get there<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMF highlights key focal points of the GCC\u2019s digital transformation. These include modernizing digital infrastructure and increasing the digital economy\u2019s contribution to GDP, streamlining government operations, and promoting open governance to enhance efficiency and innovation. Additionally, the strategy involves implementing national information and communication technologies and broadband strategies, as well as improving quality of life and operational efficiency to elevate citizens&#8217; living standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/single-window-system-now-operates-70-of-brazils-imports\/\">Single Window system now operates 70% of Brazil\u2019s imports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-385268\">\u00a9Philippe Turpin\/Photononstop\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An International Monetary Fund report highlights the Gulf Cooperation Council nations\u2019 strategies to increase the digital sector\u2019s share of GDP and make it dominant in government services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":385268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[3971,18207,37770,2266,24207,27134,10545,28576,12846,9756,10161,1988,11627,2030,12924,9598,9595,9579],"class_list":{"0":"post-385280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"tag-bahrain","9":"tag-digital-economy","10":"tag-digitalizacao-en","11":"tag-digitization","12":"tag-e-government","13":"tag-economia-en","14":"tag-economy-en","15":"tag-fmi-en-2","16":"tag-gcc-ar","17":"tag-gdp-en","18":"tag-gulf-en","19":"tag-imf","20":"tag-kuwait-ar","21":"tag-oman","22":"tag-pib-ar","23":"tag-qatar-en","24":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","25":"tag-uae-en"},"wps_subtitle":"An International Monetary Fund report highlights the Gulf Cooperation Council nations\u2019 strategies to increase the digital sector\u2019s share of GDP and make it dominant in government services.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}