People searching health information online in the Netherlands 2010 -2020, by gender

The European questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies Data reveals that there exists a disparity between the internet usage of people according to gender. This disparity although present in most countries, differs widely in its severity.
By 2020, 81 percent of female internet users in the Netherlands used the internet to look up health information on the internet. Among men this share was lower with only 72 percent. Compared to 2019, two percent more men and three percent more women replied that they used the internet to inform themselves about health and related issues.