TMGIndex - 2003

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is year-by-year conducting surveys and interviews to determine the state of software legality globally. The resulting document is called the BSA Global Software Piracy Study.
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According to those studies (usually performed by third-party organizations) the trends in software piracy are analysed. However there are concerns regarding the study methodology. Get the 2003 Global Study
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Since we all know, statitics is a science for viewing the same numbers from different viewpoints, we decided to analyse the same numbers through other glasses. This is how the TMGIndex (The Tozser and Marias GDP Index) was introduced four years ago.

The calculation methodology of the TMGIndex is based on a very simple rule: how a software expenditure of a nation is relating to its Gross Domestic Product. Simply said, this is illumintaing the efforts invested by a nation into buying software, relating to its purchasing power.

The TMGindex is the amount of dollars spent on software per capita out of every 10.000 US dollars of GDP.

Country SW Piracy index
(%)		 Caused losses
(million of USD)		 Spent on SW
(millions USD)		 Population
(millions)		 Spent on SW
(USD/capita)		 GDP
(USD/capita)		 TMGI
Czech Republic 40 50 75 10,3 7.28 5 600 13.00
Germany 32 934 1 985 80.2 24.75 22 500 11.00
Hungary 45 41 50 10.0 5.01 5 100 9.83
Switzerland 32 102 217 6,9 31.41 34 000 9.24
Canada 39 306 479 27.4 17.47 22 300 7.83
Austria 30 59 138 7.79 17.67 23 300 7.58
USA 23 1 960 6 562 257.9 25.44 35 200 7.23
France 43 664 880 57.4 15.34 21 700 7.07
United Kingdom 26 337 959 57.9 16.57 24 300 6.82
Italy 47 511 576 57.5 10.02 18 800 5.33
Greece 63 54 32 10.3 3.08 10 700 2.88
Spain 47 97 109 39.3 2.78 14 500 1.92

(The index is based on the figures extracted from the BSA Global Software Piracy Study. The GDP data is downloaded from the reports to be found on the Web-site of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the OECD. )

One of the most interesting figure is how the retail software revenue lost to piracy is distributed globally.

You get strange results: Eastern-Europe including Russia - one of the world-leader in pirated software - is not generating more than 8% of all the retail software revenue losses.