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  • Active mobile money accounts
  • Adoption of communication technologiesAbsolute numbers
  • Adoption of communication technologies per 100 people
  • Annual number of objects launched into space
  • Chess ability of the best computers
  • Computation used to train notable artificial intelligence systems
  • Computational capacity of the fastest supercomputers
  • Computed tomography (CT) imaging units per million people
  • Cost of sequencing a full human genome
  • Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit
  • Cost per billion pairs of DNA sequencing
  • Export of environmentally sound technologies
  • GPU computational performance per dollar
  • Historical price of computer memory and storage
  • Human visits to space per year
  • Import of environmentally sound technologies
  • Landline Internet subscriptions
  • Landline Internet subscriptions per 100 people
  • Landline phone subscriptions
  • Landline phone subscriptions per 100 people
  • Levelized cost of energy by technology
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units per million people
  • Mobile and landline phone subscriptions per 100 people
  • Mobile phone subscriptions
  • Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people
  • Moore's law: The number of transistors per microprocessor
  • Non-commercial flight distance records
  • Number of people using the Internet
  • Pacemaker implantations per million people
  • Price changes in consumer goods and services in the United States
  • Projected number of air conditioning units
  • Record number of quantum bits per processor
  • Registered vehicles per 1,000 people
  • Share of United States households using specific technologies
  • Share of households with air conditioning
  • Share of medium and high-tech in gross domestic product (GDP)
  • Share of people in range of 4G mobile network
  • Share of people who own a mobile phone, by sex
  • Share of population in range of mobile network, by capability
  • Share of the population using the Internet
  • Solar (photovoltaic) panel prices
  • Solar (photovoltaic) panel prices vs. cumulative capacity
  • Technology and infrastructure diffusion in the United Kingdom
  • Technology and infrastructure diffusion in the United States
  • The cost of 66 different technologies over time
  • Total factor productivity

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