2010-02-27

CCIEs Worldwide (and the state of Egypt in high-tech industry)

I browsed the CCIEs worldwide list and found some interesting numbers, it sheds some light on the distribution of the top networking talent in the field geographically.

First the totals (last updated 2/5/2010):

Total of Worldwide CCIEs 20864
Total of Routing and Switching CCIEs 17774
Total of Security CCIEs 2393
Total of Service Provider CCIEs 1752
Total of Storage Networking CCIEs 150
Total of Voice CCIEs 1180
Total of Wireless CCIEs 20


Then the country-by country numbers:

USA 5494
P.R. China 3619
Japan 1142
United Kingdom 1052
Korea 1033
    Naturally, USA is the largest country to have certified CCIEs (being that it is the home country of Cisco and the largest market for its products), but the interesting number is that Asia holds the largest number of CCIEs collectively (given the population numbers), the really surprising omission in this list is India (which comes in the seventh place), it gives it a more realistic perspective of top tech-related talent distribution in developed countries (with China holding about 5 times the CCIEs compared to India).

    Then the Arab World


    Saudi Arabia 193
    United Arab Emirates 169
    Egypt 110
    Israel 65
    Kuwait 47
    Qatar 34
    Jordan 33
    Lebanon 28
    Bahrain 13
    Oman 10
    Algeria 6
    Morocco 6
    Tunisia 4
    Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 2
    Palestinian Territory 2
    Yemen 2

    Here we find that Saudi Arabia holds the largest number of CCIEs, followed by UAE then Egypt, this shows that Egypt (unlike public press from the Government) is not the largest pool of high-tech talent in the Middle East (and its not Israel either, shown here for comparison purposes), but Saudi Arabia and UAE, this might not be true in all of the high-tech segments, but it indicates that the efforts excreted by the Governmental initiatives in Egypt are not that effective in creating a pool of high-end expertise in the field.
    Egypt is not even the largest country in Africa to hold CCIEs, South Africa (with 122 CCIEs) is higher in this list.

    2 comments:

    Unknown said...

    Sorry, but these numbers are statistically insignificant!
    In plain English, you can't judge the whole market with just these numbers.

    Unknown said...

    I agree that these numbers seem very little, but they represent some very important slice in the High-Tech industry (you know how many years of practical and theoretical experience an expert needs to pass CCIE).
    And as the numbers (in general) can't tell you the truth, neither do these numbers, but they are an important indicator (IMHO at least).