By NIMY Sara Joy
Feb. 19 – The premier global market intelligence firm, IDC published the new account of mobile working population. The new study on the world mobile worker population states that the population will be crossing 1 billion this year. IDC is doing research of information technology companies and markets. By 2013, the population will reach around 1.2 billion, company says.
Mobile Enterprise Software research analyst Sean Ryan said, “Vast opportunities exist for bringing a variety of mobile technologies to the world’s workforce.”
The studies also bring out the details of the percentage of the mobile workers in country based. According to the report from US, the highest per cent of mobile workforce are US. By 2008, it was 72.2% and the study says it will be 75.5% by 2013.
And the largest total number of mobile workers throughout the estimate from Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) and it will come around 546.4 million. It is expecting that it will be growing as to 37.4% in 2013.
By 2013, the Western Europe is to reach 129.5 million workforces and the number of workers in Japan will be reaching 49.3 million. The rest of the world which will be included Canada, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and Latin America will observe the expansion of population to 153.2 million.
