EU: internet penetration rate by country 2022

As of 2022, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) ranked Norway and Denmark as the European Union member states with the highest share of the population using the internet. Both countries had an online usage penetration rate of more than 96 percent. In the same year, Bulgaria was the EU state with the lowest internet penetration rate, with only 79 percent of people using the internet. Overall, the average internet penetration in the European Union stood at around 89 percent.

Internet penetration rate in the European Union from 2019 to 2022, by country

Characteristic	2019	2020	2021	2022
Norway	97.73%	96.26%	98.17%	98.3%
Denmark	95.23%	95.46%	97.26%	96.4%
Sweden	90.99%	95.44%	94.84%	95.8%
Ireland	79.87%	88.27%	97.97%	95.3%
Luxembourg	92.4%	92.59%	97.31%	95.2%
Finland	92.56%	93.42%	95.36%	94.8%
Netherlands	93.84%	95.36%	93.89%	94.4%
Belgium	87.13%	88.93%	91.39%	93%
Spain	82.51%	87.71%	91.79%	92.9%
Malta	80.46%	85.1%	86.81%	91%
Austria	85.34%	86.18%	89.32%	90.5%
Latvia	81.17%	83.72%	89.79%	90.3%
Estonia	87.37%	88.43%	89.76%	90.1%
France	85.3%	86.52%	89.33%	89.9%
Germany	90.46%	91.23%	89.26%	89.9%
Czechia	83.79%	84.74%	87.42%	89.7%
Cyprus	83.67%	85.5%	90.64%	89.2%
European Union	83.12%	85.26%	87.18%	88.6%
Hungary	74.99%	79.91%	87.43%	88.1%
Slovenia	78.96%	80.96%	87.57%	87.7%
Slovakia	78.45%	81.97%	87.15%	87.7%
Lithuania	78.1%	80.69%	85.58%	86.8%
Poland	74.77%	78.27%	83.63%	85.7%
Romania	68.3%	71.56%	81.82%	84.1%
Portugal	71.31%	72.87%	80.18%	83.2%
Italy	72.37%	73.89%	80.11%	82.9%
Greece	69.81%	73.69%	77.09%	81.9%
Croatia	72.69%	77.12%	80.32%	80.6%
Bulgaria	63.63%	66.84%	73.93%	79%
United Kingdom	93.79%	94.64%	-	-

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Release date

July 2023

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Survey time period

2019 to 2022

Age group

16-74 years

Special properties

individuals using the internet at least once a week in the last 3 months

Supplementary notes

The United Kingdom was excluded from the rankings since 2021.

In 2021, the source made moderation in the survey methodology in Germany, Ireland, and EU.

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