The purpose of the research - the main objectives of the development of the digital economy satellite account (RIPH) are to provide users with a reliable assessment of what is measured in the digital economy and to determine what cannot be measured within the existing methodology, as well as to provide international comparisons with key indicators describing the digital economy.
The methodology of the research is the assessment of the value of information and its role in production and in the process of creating and transforming economic value using observation, analysis and comparison methods.
The practical importance of the research is in estimating the value of information at a given time as the difference between the entity's future discounted income and the value of its fixed capital as a whole.
The results of the research - the research describes the methodological problems of statistical measurement of the digital economy and the possibilities of assessing the digital economy in macroeconomic calculations has been.
The originality and scientific novelty of the research - it is appropriate for an entity to approach the valuation of data as a non-productive asset based on the net present value method. The approaches proposed in the research to the statistical valuation of the digital economy can be used as a basis for establishing such a measurement system in Azerbaijan.
Keywords: digital economy, satellite account of the digital economy, digital resources and usage schedule, value of data, net present value method.