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Data in focus
Industry, trade and services
Authors: Anna LÖÖF, Heidi SEYBERT
46/2009
Internet usage in 2009 - Households and Individuals
Broadband access to the internet expanded to more than half of EU households
Figure 1: Internet access and broadband internet connections by households, EU-27 (%)
4930544260496556020406080100Internet accessBroadband connections2006200720082009
 
Source: Eurostat (isoc_pibi_hba,isoc_pibi_hiac)
Regular internet use by men and women increased by more than 10 percentagepoints in each age group between 2006 and 2009; generation gaps remained
Figure 2: Individuals who used the internet on average at least once a week, by age group andgender, EU-27 (%)
 
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Source: Eurostat (isoc_pibi_use)
 
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46/2009 —
Data in focus 
Table 1: Internet access and broadband connections by households, 2006 - 2009 (%)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2006 2007 2008 2009EU27 49 54 60 65 30 42 49 56BE
54 60 64 67 48 56 60 63
BG
17 19 25 30 10 15 21 26
CZ
29 35 46 54 17 28 36 49
DK
79 78 82 83 63 70 74 76
DE
67 71 75 79 34 50 55 65
EE
46 53 58 63 37 48 54 62
IE
50 57 63 67 13 31 43 54
EL
23 25 31 38 4 7 22 33
ES
39 45 51 54 29 39 45 51
FR
41 49 62 63 30 43 57 57
IT
40 43 47 53 16 25 31 39
CY
37 39 43 53 12 20 33 47
LV
42 51 53 58 23 32 40 50
LT
35 44 51 60 19 34 43 50
LU
70 75 80 87 44 58 61 71
HU
32 38 48 55 22 33 42 51
MT
53 54 59 64 41 44 55 63
NL
80 83 86 90 66 74 74 77
 AT
52 60 69 70 33 46 54 58
PL
36 41 48 59 22 30 38 51
PT
35 40 46 48 24 30 39 46
RO
14 22 30 38 5 8 13 24
SI
54 58 59 64 34 44 50 56
SK
27 46 58 62 11 27 35 42
FI
65 69 72 78 53 63 66 74
SE
77 79 84 86 51 67 71 80
UK
63 67 71 77 44 57 62 69
HR
: 41 45 50 : 23 27 39
MK
14 : 29 42 1 : 23 34
TR
: 20 : : : 17 : :
IS
83 84 88 90 72 76 83 87
NO
69 78 84 86 57 67 73 78
RS
: 26 : 37 : 7 : 23
Broadband connectionsInternet access
 
: data not availableSource: Eurostat (isoc_pibi_hba,isoc_pibi_hiac)
A large majority of young people in EU-27 used the internet daily
Figure 3: Individuals who used the internet on average every day or almost every day, 2009 (%)
 
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Individuals aged 16-24 Individuals aged 16-74
 
Source: Eurostat (isoc_ci_ifp_fu)
 
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Nearly 90 % of the EU population with high formal education used the internetregularly, more than twice as much as the share for the population with low formaleducation
Figure 4: Individuals who used the internet on average at least once a week, by age group andlevel of education, EU-27, 2009 (%)
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020406080100Total16-2425-5455-74
no or low formal educationmedium formal educationhigh formal education
 
Source: Eurostat (isoc_pibi_use)
About half of individuals in EU-27 used the internet for finding information aboutgoods and services
Figure 5: Individuals who used the internet for finding information about goods or services forprivate purposes in the last 3 months, 2009 (%)
 
0102030405060708090100NL SE LU DK FI DE UK FR BE AT EE IE EU27 SK CZ LV SI MT HU ES LT PT CY EL IT PL BG RO
 
Source: Eurostat (isoc_ci_ac_i)
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