case these there is not any data for the period. Canada is excluded due to a methodological break in 2017. 2 Except of motor vehicles and motorcycles. The extent of cloud adoption differs across countries, sectors, and firm size. Among OECD countries, the share of businesses purchasing cloud computing services ( Figure 4 ) in 2018 ranges from a high of 65 percent in Finland to a low of 10 percent in Latvia. The OECD reports ( Figure 3 ) that over 60 percent of firms in the Information and Communication sector use cloud computing services but the comparable
, as it eases the total cost of ownership previously required. Advantages of using cloud computing services (such as software as a service [SaaS], platform as a service [PaaS], and infrastructure as a service [IaaS]) go beyond costs. The time to develop specific software applications that often take months can be drastically reduced in a cloud computing environment, and the development tools and environment are centralized in the cloud. Another benefit is the improved efficiency of IT resources via cloud virtualiza-tion. The services approach/ pay- per- use model