EU regions: how did people use the internet in 2021? - European Commission

In 2021, immoderate 67% of the EU population (16-74 years old) bought/ordered goods oregon services implicit the net during the 12 months anterior to the survey. This stock reached a highest of 93% successful 3 Dutch regions (Drenthe, Utrecht and Zeeland). More generally, determination was a precise precocious inclination to usage e-commerce successful each but 1 of the remaining Dutch regions (Limburg being the exception), each of the Danish regions, each but 2 of the Swedish regions, 2 retired of 3 Irish regions and Corse (France).

Source dataset: isoc_r_blt12_l

The Bulgarian regions of Yugoiztochen and Severen Tsentralen had the lowest proportions of radical making usage of the net to acquisition goods oregon services implicit the net (26% and 27%, respectively, successful 2021).

Meanwhile, immoderate 58% of the EU colonisation utilized the net for banking during the 3 months anterior to the survey. At slightest 90% of radical made usage of net banking successful each portion of Denmark, Finland (no information disposable for Åland), arsenic good arsenic 8 retired of 12 regions successful the Netherlands. The Finnish superior portion of Helsinki-Uusimaa had the highest stock of net banking (96%). Every portion of Bulgaria and Romania (except for the superior regions of Yugozapaden  and Bucureşti-Ilfov) reported little than 1 4th of each radical making usage of net banking; this was besides the lawsuit for Kentriki Elláda successful cardinal Greece.

One of the astir communal activities connected the net was information successful societal networks, for example, utilizing Facebook, Instagram, TikTok oregon Twitter. In 2021, adjacent to three-fifths (57%) of the EU’s colonisation participated successful societal networks during the 3 months anterior to the latest survey. The information complaint for youths aged 16–29 years (83%) was astir 4 times arsenic precocious arsenic the corresponding complaint for older radical aged 65–74 years (23%).

 Source dataset: isoc_r_iuse_i and isoc_ci_ac_i

In 2021, determination were 19 NUTS level 2 regions crossed the EU wherever astatine slightest 3 quarters of the colonisation aged 16-74 years aged participated successful societal networks. 

The 21 regions wherever little than 45% of radical participated successful societal networks were exclusively located successful Germany (NUTS level 1 regions) and France. Several of these were characterised arsenic predominantly agrarian oregon outermost regions. Participation successful societal networks was peculiarly debased successful the eastbound German regions of Thüringen, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt (each of these had a stock wrong the scope of 34–37%) and successful the outermost regions of La Réunion (35%) and Guadeloupe (36%) successful France.

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Methodological notes:

• In this article, the determination information are presented astatine NUTS 2 level. There are 242 regions astatine NUTS 2 level.
• Germany, Greece, Poland and Turkey: NUTS 1 data. 
• Croatia and Albania: nationalist data.
• Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland: interruption successful clip series. 
• Data not disposable for: 
  • Liechtenstein
  • France: Mayotte
  • Finland: Åland
  • Norway: Oslo og Viken
  • Norway: Agder og Sør-Østlandet
  • Norway: Vestlandet
  • Norway: Svalbard og Jan Mayen

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