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Internet access up by 50 per cent in EU over last five years
Dec 14, 2011, 19:30 GMT
Brussels - The proportion of EU households connected to the internet has jumped from 49 per cent to 73 per cent over the last five years, an increase of roughly 50 per cent, the European Union's statistical agency reported Wednesday.
Access to the internet was more widespread in more affluent northern European countries such as the Netherlands (94 per cent), Luxembourg and Sweden (both 91 per cent), the Eurostat agency said.
In Germany it was 83 per cent, 10 percentage points higher than the EU average. The lowest rates were recorded in Bulgaria (45 per cent) and Romania (47 per cent), the poorest members of the bloc, as well as in Greece (50 per cent).
The data was collected in the first quarter of 2011, covering households with people aged between 16 and 74.
The survey also revealed that the share of people who had never used the internet had fallen from 42 per cent in 2006 to 24 per cent in 2011. The EU has set itself a target of reducing that share to 15 per cent by 2015.
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