According to the report published by the World Bank, India's exports from the ICT sector increased from about $5 billion in 2000 to over $30 billion in 2006. The report entitled, 'World Development Indicators 2009', says that India exports 42 per cent of total service exports. India's software industry employs about 1.6 million people.

The WDI document says developing countries are becoming larger users and exporters of high technology. High technology goods made up 19 per cent of the manufactured exports of developing countries in 2007. China is the next largest ICT services trader, with about $5.5 billion in ICT service exports, it added. Export growth was led by manufactures in China and by services in India. The leading region was East Asia & Pacific, where 31 per cent of manufactured exports were classified as high technology, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (12 per cent), and Europe and Central Asia (6 per cent).

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