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104 II. Visualizing Global Connectedness Phone Calls: Immigrant Connections The available data on telephone calls cover 89% of the estimated world total calling minutes (including calls routed over the internet and terminated on fixed or mobile phones, but not computer-to-computer calls, e.g., via Skype). 4 Phone calls are one of the components of the index on which directionality is particularly unbalanced. This component has the highest percentage of interactions from advanced to emerging economies (41%), as compared to only 9% from emerging to advanced economies. This imbalance, reflects, in part, differences in calling charges (particularly from the United States, where international calling rates are relatively low) as well as income levels. The other, more evident driver of calling patterns has to do with interactions due to immigrants (which is also a good example of complementarities across at least some of the index components). Thus, the United States, as a country of immigrants, figures in eight of the top 10 flows of phone calls. The top two destinations of international calls placed from the United States are Mexico (the largest source of first-generation immigrants) and India (the third-largest). All of the United States’ country partners in the top 10 figure in the top 15 sources of immigrants to the United States (out of more than 200 countries and territories) with the exception of Brazil, which ranks 26th. The inference of an immigrant effect is backstopped by the observation that the two flows of the largest 10 that don’t involve the United States are from Hong Kong to China and from the United Kingdom to India (the largest source of first-generation immigrants to the United Kingdom). Similarly, the other interregional flows that stand out from the circular visualization—the United States to Africa and Russia to the rest of South and Central Asia (minus India and Pakistan, i.e., mostly just to Central Asia) can be given a similar interpretation. 4 For telephone calls, the main data limitation is that each country only reports data on calls to/from a sample of partners.
DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014 105 Phone Calls Circular Visualization Scale: 1:1,000,000,000 Region Label Name North America MEX Mexico USA CAN R-NA United States Canada Rest of North America Europe NLD Netherlands Middle East & North Africa POL RUS FRA GBR DEU ITA ESP CHE R-EU ARE SAU R-ME Poland Russian Federation France United Kingdom Germany Italy Spain Switzerland Rest of Europe United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Rest of Middle East & North Africa Region Label Name Sub-Saharan Africa AF Sub-Saharan Africa South & Central Asia PAK Pakistan IND India R-CA Rest of South & Central Asia East Asia & Pacific TWN Taiwan (China) MYS Malaysia SGP Singapore HKG Hong Kong SAR (China) CHN China JPN Japan PHL Philippines AUS Australia R-AP Rest of East Asia & Pacific South & Central America, BRA Brazil Caribbean R-SA Rest of South & Central America, Caribbean
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