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Volume of piracy software market makes $ 52 mln in Azerbaijan

13 May 2010 12:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Valiyeva - APA-Economics. The International Association of Software Producers (BSA) jointly with research group IDC has announced results of the seventh annual survey of software piracy rate.

The ICT Information Centre says that according to the report, worse situation on the software piracy level is in Georgia where 95% of software is unlicensed. Neighboring Armenia (90%) ranks 5th place on software piracy level.

Positive changes occurred in Azerbaijan compared with last yearâ€™s report. The piracy level fell from 90% to 88%, and in the list of software piracy countries Azerbaijan holds 8th place while in the 2009 report it ranked 6th.

Countries with high level of piracy	Level of Piracy %	Countries with low level of piracy	Level of Piracy %
Georgia	95%	USA	20%
Zimbabwe	92%	Japan	21%
Bangladesh	91%	Luxemburg	21%
Moldova	91%	New Zealand	22%
Armenia	90%	Australia	25%
Yemen	90%	Austria	25%
Sri-Lanka	89%	Belgium	25%
Azerbaijan	88%	Finland	25%
Libya	88%	Sweden	25%
Belarus	87%	Switzerland	25%

The least level of piracy was registered in the United States (20%), Japan (21%), Luxembourg (22%), New Zealand (22%) and the highest one in Central and Eastern Europe (64%). In North America piracy rate is lowest - 21%.

The volume of spent allocations for piracy software of 30 countries were explained:

Country	Spent allocations ($ mln)	Country	Spent allocations ($ mln)
USA	8,390	Venezuela	685
China	7,583	Argentina	645
Russia	2,613	Southern Korea	575
France	2,544	Australia	550
Brasil	2,254	Netherlands	525
Germany	2,023	Poland	506
India	2,003	Malaysia	453
Japan	1,838	Turkey	415
Italy	1,733	Vietnam	353
Great Britain	1,581	Switzerland	344
Mexico	1,056	Southern Africa	324
Spain	1,014	Chili	315
Canada	943	Sweden	304
Indonesia	886	Saudi Arabia	304
Thailand	694	Ukraine	272