Contents
- business PC adoption statistics: Singapore business computer use, 2017–2025
- business PC adoption statistics: Malaysia’s national trend
- business PC adoption statistics: Malaysian computer use by sector
- business PC adoption: business computer use in Hong Kong by industry
- business PC adoption: Hong Kong business computer use by establishment size
- business PC adoption: Philippine establishment computer ownership and workplace use
- Sources
business PC adoption statistics: Singapore business computer use, 2017–2025
Singapore’s annual enterprise series reports the share of enterprises using computers. The rate was 90.4% in 2017 and 90.6% in 2018. It reached 92.2% in 2019, then registered 90.7% in 2020 and 91.6% in 2021. The next observations were 94.3% in 2022, 93.7% in 2023, 93.9% in 2024 and 95% in 2025. Source: Infocomm Usage By Enterprises, Annual
| Year | Enterprises using computers |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 90.4% |
| 2018 | 90.6% |
| 2019 | 92.2% |
| 2020 | 90.7% |
| 2021 | 91.6% |
| 2022 | 94.3% |
| 2023 | 93.7% |
| 2024 | 93.9% |
| 2025 | 95% |
Across these 9 annual observations, every reported rate is above 90%. The readings do not move upward in every year: the 2019 rate is followed by a lower result in 2020, and the 2022 result is followed by a lower rate in 2023. The highest observation in the series is 95% in 2025. The figures describe reported enterprise computer use; the series does not explain changes between years. Source: Infocomm Usage By Enterprises, Annual
The unit of observation matters when interpreting “business PC adoption.” Singapore’s indicator is the proportion of enterprises reporting computer use. It does not give the number of computers in each enterprise, identify a particular computer type, or report the share of employees using computers. It is therefore an enterprise-level use measure, rather than a count of desktop PCs or a measure of workplace intensity. Source: Infocomm Usage By Enterprises, Annual
business PC adoption statistics: Malaysia’s national trend
Malaysia’s Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025 lists computer use among establishments for reference year 2015 and for 2022, 2023 and 2024. The respective rates are 73.5%, 95.9%, 96.6% and 97.2%. Although the publication title includes 2025, the latest observation in this series is for reference year 2024. Source: Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025, Table 1
| Reference year | Establishments using computers |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 73.5% |
| 2022 | 95.9% |
| 2023 | 96.6% |
| 2024 | 97.2% |
The listed observations show higher reported rates in 2022, 2023 and 2024 than in 2015, and successive increases over the 3 most recent listed years. There are no observations shown for 2016 through 2021, so the table cannot show the annual path during that interval or identify when the observed difference arose. These are percentages of establishments reporting use, not counts of devices or shares of workers who use them. Source: Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025, Table 1
Malaysia’s definition of computer use includes personal computers, laptops and tablets. Consequently, the indicator covers more than desktop personal computers alone. An establishment-level rate shows whether establishments report using computers under this definition; it does not show how many devices they have or how frequently staff use them. Source: Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025, Table 1
business PC adoption statistics: Malaysian computer use by sector
For reference year 2024, the Malaysian publication reports computer use across 7 sector categories. Utilities recorded 100.0%. Construction reported 97.4%, services 97.3%, and wholesale and retail trade 97.1%. Manufacturing was at 96.5%, mining and quarrying at 95.6%, and agriculture at 93.0%. Each figure is the share of establishments in the named activity reporting computer use. Source: Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025, Table 1
| Sector, 2024 | Establishments using computers |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | 93.0% |
| Mining and quarrying | 95.6% |
| Manufacturing | 96.5% |
| Construction | 97.4% |
| Services | 97.3% |
| Utilities | 100.0% |
| Wholesale and retail trade | 97.1% |
All 7 listed categories have a reported rate of at least 93.0%. Utilities is the highest category in this table, while agriculture is the lowest. The figures compare reported prevalence across the publication’s sector categories; they do not establish why rates differ or describe the number of computers used within each establishment. Source: Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025, Table 1
The sector figures and national trend use the same broad computer-use definition, which includes personal computers, laptops and tablets. The figures remain establishment rates rather than employee-level measures. They do not indicate whether computers are concentrated in particular functions or whether all employees in an establishment use them. Source: Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishments 2025, Table 1
business PC adoption: business computer use in Hong Kong by industry
Hong Kong’s 2023 business-sector survey reports an overall computer-use rate of 88.7% among 351,016 establishments. Its industry results are presented for broad groupings. Information and communications recorded 99.8%; financing and insurance, real estate, professional and business services recorded 97.0%; and social and personal services recorded 88.4%. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.1
| Industry grouping, 2023 | Establishments using computers |
|---|---|
| Information and communications | 99.8% |
| Financing and insurance, real estate, professional and business services | 97.0% |
| Social and personal services | 88.4% |
| Import/export, wholesale and retail trades, and accommodation and food services | 87.8% |
| Construction | 82.3% |
| Manufacturing, electricity, gas and waste management | 81.3% |
| Transportation, storage and courier services | 73.1% |
The other industry groupings report 87.8% for import/export, wholesale and retail trades, and accommodation and food services; 82.3% for construction; 81.3% for manufacturing, electricity, gas and waste management; and 73.1% for transportation, storage and courier services. Information and communications is the highest listed grouping, and transportation, storage and courier services is the lowest. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.1
These are grouped industry results, not separate rates for every constituent industry. For example, 97.0% applies to the combined financing and insurance, real estate, professional and business services grouping. Likewise, 87.8% combines import/export, wholesale and retail trades, and accommodation and food services. The 81.3% figure combines manufacturing, electricity, gas and waste management. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.1
The survey reports computer use separately from smartphone use and from a combined computer-or-smartphone measure. The percentages above refer only to the “Using computers” column. They do not identify desktop-PC ownership, computer counts, or how often employees use computers. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.1
business PC adoption: Hong Kong business computer use by establishment size
The same Hong Kong survey reports the number of establishments and computer-use rate for 3 size groups in 2023. It lists 6,356 large establishments, 31,304 medium establishments and 313,356 small establishments. Their respective computer-use rates are 100.0%, 98.7% and 87.4%. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.2
| Establishment size, 2023 | Establishments | Using computers |
|---|---|---|
| Large | 6,356 | 100.0% |
| Medium | 31,304 | 98.7% |
| Small | 313,356 | 87.4% |
The reported computer-use proportion is highest for large establishments and lowest for small establishments in this size breakdown. The establishment counts identify the number in each size category, while the percentages show the proportion in that category reporting computer use. Neither column is a count of computers or a measure of the share of employees who use them. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.2
As in the industry table, these figures are for computer use alone. The survey separately reports smartphone use and a combined computer-or-smartphone measure; those results are not included in the size-specific computer-use rates here. Source: Report on the Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, 2023 Edition, Table 2.2
business PC adoption: Philippine establishment computer ownership and workplace use
The Philippines’ 2021 Survey on Information and Communications Technology for All Establishments reports that 255,367 of 281,153 establishments owned and used computers and communication equipment in business operations. The proportion was 90.8%. The survey covered establishments across 18 sections of the 2009 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification. It was conducted in 2022 as a rider to the 2021 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry, and the data refer to reference year 2021. Source: 2021 Survey on Information and Communications Technology (SICT) for All Establishments, Table A and survey notes
The report gives 3 industry examples using the same establishment ownership-and-use measure. Administrative and support service activities recorded 99.4%, covering 6,123 establishments. Financial and insurance activities recorded 99.0%, covering 42,255 establishments. Agriculture, forestry and fishing recorded 76.9%, covering 2,227 establishments; the report identifies it as the lowest proportion in the cited discussion. Source: 2021 Survey on Information and Communications Technology (SICT) for All Establishments, sector discussion
A separate Philippine result measures employees rather than establishments. In reference year 2021, 2,462,502 of 6,155,893 employees routinely used a computer at work, a reported proportion of 40.0%. This employee-level measure has a different denominator and meaning from the 90.8% establishment figure. The latter concerns ownership and use of computers and communication equipment in business operations; the former concerns employees routinely using a computer at work. Source: 2021 Survey on Information and Communications Technology (SICT) for All Establishments, Table A