Top 5 Information Technology Countries in the World

4. Japan 

Share of The BECH Index 2022: 4.05%

Japan’s IT sector is a large and diverse part of its economy. According to Statista, the industry had an annual turnover of almost JPY16.7 trillion (about $147 billion) in 2020, representing about 3.3% of the global IT market and about 3% of the country’s GDP. The sector is also a major employer, with over 800 thousand workers at software companies. It consists of various segments, such as programming services, system services, open source, and software as a service (SaaS), where the IT service market alone had a revenue of $116 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow to $122 billion by 2024.