In fact, Italy is well below the European average on the total number of employees in the ICT sector , ranking XXII : its 558,300 employees in the sector correspond in fact to only 2.5% of total employees . In the first 3 places we find instead 3 virtuous Northern European realities: Finland 6.5% (corresponding to 157,700 employed) Sweden 6.1% (293,800 employed) United Kingdom 5.0% (1,542,600 employed) At the European level, therefore, a picture emerges in which Italy, while recording a slight growth in the number of employees in the sector, as we will see just below, nevertheless fails to keep up with the countries traveling at higher speeds.
How many people are employed in ICT in Italy In Italy, the ICT market , after several years of decline following the global economic and financial crisis, with a consequent contraction mobile number list ployment levels, had a performance in 2015 that went against the trend compared to previous years, recording an increase in the volume of business and a general resilience of the sector , an improvement that suggests a further increase in the immediate future, also at a forecasting level.
According to a 2016 Assinform survey entitled The ICT market 2015-2016 , within the last year the sector has recovered within our national borders, going from a drop in turnover of -1.4% (2014) to an encouraging +1% in 2015(64,908 million euros) and an annual forecast for 2016 of +1.5% (65,882 million euros), a rather substantial growth if one considers that in 2010 the market was stationary at approximately 60,000 million euros, with a by 6.5% compared to 2008.