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14 Sept. 2019. As mobile phones, smart watches, and tablets play an increasingly key role in our daily lives, a new report shows mobile technology makes a sizeable contribution to the world’s economy. The organization GSMA representing the global mobile industry issued its annual report<\/a> on the mobile economy, with data our friends at Statista<\/a> highlighted this week, offered as our weekend infographic.<\/p>\n

In the report, GSMA estimates the mobile industry added $3.9 trillion to the world’s gross domestic product in 2018, making up 4.6 percent of the total. The mobile industry in the Asia-Pacific region contributes the most to this total, with $1.6 trillion, making up 5.3 percent of the region’s GDP. North America follows with an $840 billion contribution, 4.1 percent of that area’s GDP, and Europe contribution $620 billion, 3.5 percent of its total GDP.<\/p>\n

Sub-Saharan Africa contributed the smallest amount to its GDP in 2018 at $144 billion, but that amount makes up 8.6 percent of the region’s GDP, the largest proportion in any geographic area. West Africa alone provides $52 billion to the region, with about the same overall percent age of GDP, 8.7 percent.<\/p>\n

As we’ve noted in Science & Enterprise, mobile technology is being used increasingly in research and diagnostics. We reported just this week that Apple unveiled its upcoming research app<\/a> for use with iPhones and Apple Watches in studies of women\u2019s health, hearing, and heart health.<\/p>\n

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