Denmark tops e-commerce report
Denmark takes the world's crown for e-commerce with the UK coming in second, an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report has found.
The fourth annual EIU report shows that the outlook for the technology industry is better than it has been in recent years driven by cheaper, easier to use products and faster internet connections.
With the introduction of broadband, developing countries seem to be benefitting more than their well-established rivals, which has caused some of the previously top-ranked countries to move down.
For example, the US, slipped to sixth in the survey from joint third a year earlier. The Netherlands dropped to eighth, while Switzerland fell to 10th, Canada 11th and Australia 12th. Broadband adoption rates in all these countries is still fairly low.
Singapore ranked seventh in the survey, with a surge of five places and Sweden came in a cool third.
All the accession countries included in the survey - eight of the 10 set to join the EU on 1 May - had a "decent" infrastructure and e-business environment, the EIU said.
