p2pnet.net News:- Some 80% of households in The Netherlands are online, giving the country the highest percentage of Net users in Europe, says Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.

Second is Denmark 79%, third and third, Sweden.

The lowest levels were registered in Greece (23%), Slovakia (27%), Hungary (32%), Lithuania and Portugal (both 35%), say the data.

But at the beginning of 2006, the highest proportions of enterprises with internet access were Finland (99%), Denmark and Austria (both 98%) and the Netherlands (97%). Only in Latvia (80%), Cyprus (86%), Lithuania (88%) and Poland (89%) were fewer than 90% of enterprises online.

“In the EU25, 52% of households had access to the internet during the first quarter of 2006, compared to 48% during the first quarter of 2005, and 32% had a broadband connection, compared to 23% in 2005,” says Eurostat.

At the beginning of 2006, 94% of enterprises with at least 10 employees had access to theNet (91% at the beginning of 2005), and 75% had a broadband connection (63% in 2005), says the survey, which covered households containing at least one person aged 16-74, and individuals aged 16-74.

In the first quarter of 2006, 47% of people in the EU25 surfed regularly, ie at least once a week, whether at home or eleswhere.

The Netherlands also had the highest number of households with a broadband connection in 2006 (66%). Next came Denmark (63%), Finland (53%) and Sweden (51%), with the lowest in Greece (4%), Slovakia (11%), Cyprus (12%) and Ireland (13%), says Eurostat.

Among enterprises, the highest levels of broadband connections were recorded in Sweden and Finland (both 89%), Spain (87%) and France (86%), and the lowest in Poland (46%), Cyprus (55%), Lithuania (57%) and Latvia (59%).

“Nearly three quarters of young people used the internet at least once a week,” says the survey, going on:

“In the first quarter of 2006, the highest proportions of individuals regularly using the internet were recorded in Sweden (80%), Denmark (78%), the Netherlands (76%) and Finland (71%), and the lowest in Greece (23%), Cyprus (29%), Italy and Portugal (both 31%).

“At EU25 level a higher proportion of men than women used the internet regularly (51% of men compared with 43% of women), and this was true for all Member States, although in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland the gap was only one or two percentage points. In Luxembourg the gap was 21 percentage points (men 76%, women 55%).”

In terms of age, nearly three quarters of people in the EU25 16 to 24 (73%), and more than half of those aged 25 to 54 (54%), went online regularly, but only a fifth of those aged 55 to 74 (20%) did so.

“While the gap in regular use between Member States ranged from one to two for 16-24 year olds (47% in Greece to 96% in the Netherlands) and one to three for 25-54 year olds (27% in Greece to 89% in Sweden), it reached one to fourteen for 55-74 year olds (4% in Greece to 56% in Denmark and Sweden),” adds Eurostat.

Also See:
Eurostat – Internet usage in the EU25, November 10, 2006

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