This statistic presents a forecast for information technology spending in the Middle East and Africa, broken down into three major IT segments: services, packaged software, and hardware. Total spending is estimated to reach 105.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, down from around 107 billion U.S. dollars in 2015. Spending on services is expected to make up about 18 percent of total IT spending in Africa and the Middle East in 2016. Globally, information technology spending is expected to reach some 2.25 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016.
Forecast share of Middle East and Africa information technology (IT) spending by segment in 2016
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