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In 2006-07 Australian exports of ICT amounted to $5.175 billion ($3.02 billion in goods and $2.155 billion in services). Major export markets include the USA, UK and ASEAN. Australia's imports of ICT were $26.1 billion ($22.89 billion in goods and $3.209 billion in services). Major sources of imports include China, ASEAN and the USA.4
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In 2007-08 exports of ICT goods were $3.136 billion with imports totalling $23.717 billion.5
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Total income for all ICT industries in 2006–07 was $122.839 billion, of which almost three quarters was attributable to the combined income of wholesale trade ($50.903 billion) and information media and telecommunications ($40.208 billion) groupings. ICT income in 2006-07 was $97.753 billion, excluding non-traditional technical areas such as electronic and precision equipment maintenance (except domestic appliances).6
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Industry Value added for all ICT industries in 2006-07 was $44.183 billion.7
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E-readiness is a measure of the quality of a country’s ICT infrastructure and the ability of its consumers, businesses and governments to use ICT to their economic and social benefit. In 2008, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Australia fourth in the world in terms of overall e-readiness with an overall score of 8.83, up from ninth position in 2007.8
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The 2007 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranks Australia: seventh for level of cyber security within technology infrastructure - ahead of the USA (fourteenth), Germany (twenty third); and eighth in the number of computers per 1000 people, ahead for example, of Canada, UK, Germany, and Singapore.
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The Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia reported the sale of video and computer games to be worth $1.5 billion in 2007–08, an increase of 53 per cent on the previous financial year.9