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Home > Cloud Computing > IDC says the COVID-19’s economic impact is getting bigger

IDC says the COVID-19’s economic impact is getting bigger

The new forecast of IDC shows that worldwide services market growth is disrupted by economic impact of COVID-19.


Seda Nur Cinar Seda Nur Cinar
July 1, 2020
2 min read
IDC says the COVID-19's economic impact is getting bigger

In April, International Data Corporation (IDC) forecast worldwide IT services and business services revenue would decline 1.1% year over year in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker shows that the market is declining 2.8% this year. In contrast, the 2021 growth rate has improved slightly from 1% to 1.4%, reflecting IDC’s optimism for a market rebound.

Shutdowns because of COVID-10 around the world

According to the announcement, the newest forecast is based on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s May forecast for worldwide GDP in 2020, which will likely contract by around 4.4%, more than twice as much as the March forecast. Due to May’s GDP forecast, all major markets are suffering greater economic slowdowns or steeper declines compared to projections made in March.

Lisa Nagamine, research manager with IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker, said,

“Over the last few months of shutdowns around the world, services providers have largely shifted clients’ core IT and business operations to ‘work from home’ environments relatively overnight without major hiccups. This further demonstrates how adaptive and resilient vendors and buyers can be in the ‘digital age’.”

Some highlights from IDC

• The Americas services markets are now forecast to decline 2.5% year over year in 2020, compared to the March forecast of nearly flat growth.
• IDC lowered the US growth forecast to -2.7% in 2020. The project-oriented markets, particularly business consulting, bore the brunt as large US consultancies have already announced workforce reductions worldwide.
• IDC also tempered the 2020 outlook for managed services by roughly 1%, now down 1.6%. The outlook for the support services market is unchanged and remains at -1.0% with growth in hardware and software support offset by sharp declines in training and education.
• Services markets in Canada also saw a sharper decline in 2020 and weaker recovery is expected across most foundation markets in the coming years, reflecting the gloomier economic outlook as the shutdown drags on.
• Latin America will continue to grow but will slump to less than 2% for 2020 with the outlook remaining unchanged from the March forecast.
• Western Europe will decline 5.2% year over year in 2020 moved downward by almost one percentage point from the March forecast.
• Central & Eastern Europe’s 2020 short-term outlook was lowered while the mid-and long-term growth improved.
• The Middle East & Africa market will contract by more than 5% in 2020 as major markets in the region are also flanked by shutdowns and the collapse in oil prices.
• Japan will contract this year by 2.8% in 2020, revised downward by more than 1 percentage point with more economic metrics, such as weaker consumer spending in April and May, pointing to a weaker economy.
• IDC still expects the China market to deliver growth of 2.7% for 2020.

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Seda Nur Cinar is the news editor of the Cloud7 News. With more than 8 years of Linux and cloud experience, Seda is a Linux and opensource enthusiast, security researcher and a web application developer.

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