Toward a Common and Comparable Framework for Measuring the Digital Economy

It is imperative that the digital economy and its impacts on growth and job creation can be measured reliably.Key Points The G20 has made tremendous progress toward creating an internationally compatible framework to measure the digital economy.Estimates from different methodologies demonstrate that the contribution of the digital economy is rising across the world The data infrastructure of developed and developing countries has a significant gap attributable to various factors, including a lack of data collection and processing capacity and differing national priorities for developing countries.