HANOI: The Vietnamese IT industry has seen rapid development from 2010 to 2015, bringing revenue of US$7.6 billion in 2010 to $49.5 billion in 2015, or seven times as much as 2010. Vietnam’s IT revenues grow seven times higher, IT news, sci-tech news, vietnamnet bridge, english news, Vietnam news, news Vietnam, vietnamnet news, Vietnam net news, Vietnam latest news, Vietnam breaking news, vn news
This information was released by Nguyen Thanh Tuyen of the Ministry of Information and Communications at a seminar on Smart Society — a part of the Vietnam ICT COMM 2016 which began in Ha Noi on Wednesday and will conclude today.
Tuyen said with total revenue of $49.5 billion, the information technology sector posted a growth rate of nearly 15 per cent against 2014. Particularly, in 2015, the ICT sector became the one making large contributions to the State budget with a tax collection of VND82.3 trillion ($3.68 billion) accounting for 10 per cent of the State budget collection.
Tuyen acknowledged that in 2015, IT continued to grow due to the recovery of local and export markets and IT outsourcing sector as well. He noted that despite economic turmoil, the electronics sector continued its growth with estimated revenue of over $46 billion, posting a growth rate of 16 per cent. Retail sales of electronic hardware devices remained stable despite slow sales in the segment of PCs and tables. The Vietnamese laptop market grew only 2.4 per cent in quantity and saw a modest growth in value against 2014.
Tuyen also attributed the decline in the software sector to the global economic turmoil between 2011 and 2015, while noting that in 2015, the domestic software industry posted revenue of $16 billion, growing 9 per cent. As for the digital content sector, last year this sector saw stable growth posting a revenue of $1.5 billion or 10 per cent year-on-year, Tuyen said.
Revenue from online mobile games stood at $107 million or equivalent to VND2.4 trillion with the number of smartphones rising from 12.6 million users in 2014 to 13.3 million users in 2015. The country has 76 licensed enterprises, providing online mobile games services. In addition, there are approximately 200 licensed social networking and Facebook users already reached 35 million, accounting for one-third of the population as of December, 2015.
