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22% of European citizens do not use the internet
- thomasbachem 13y agoSee also http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/scoreboard_life_online.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/file... (2012)
- bajsejohannes 13y agoTo see the figure 22%, set "INDIC_IS" to "Internet use: never". That's interesting. However, it might be more interesting with "Internet use: in the last 3 months". That's at 74%, meaning 26% didn't use it the last 3 months. Edit: It's also interesting to sort countries by usage. The poorer countries are at around 50% internet usage. I'm surprised to see Italy way down there with 56% usage (last 3 months).
- rsynnott 13y agoItaly has a very large elderly population.
- trumbitta2 13y agoItaly comes from 20 years of bad government and television supremacy. Also, most of our very very very old politicians are incredibly ignorant of all things digital.
- tty 13y ago17.5% of EU's population is in the 65+ age bracket http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php?title=File:Population_age_structure_by_major_age_groups,_1991_and_2011_(%25_of_the_total_population).png&filetimestamp=20130129113537 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
- nsns 13y agohow many are illiterate children?
- gus_massa 13y agoI saw illiterate children using Youtube. If an adult (or link) open one of their favorite song or cartoon, then they can jump to another videos for a long time, using the thumbnail image (and sometimes a few words that they understand)
- kamjam 13y agoEven my 18 month old niece can use the iPad to open YouTube, click around a bit, or more likely go to the history and view her previously watched stuff and navigate around that way.
- MichaelGG 13y agoNot only that, but speech recognition search is quite good enough to find e.g. "My Little Pony".
- mnml_ 13y ago22% of European don't use ATM machines and don't have a credit card ? I don't think so.
- tty 13y agoI would think the percentage of people who don't use ATM machines and don't have a credit card is likely higher than 22%, actually. Using only cash is much more common in Europe than in the US.
- kalleboo 13y agoThis is one of those areas where you can't really generalize over "Europe" at all since it varies so much between countries. In Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the UK, card usage is extremely high. In southern and eastern Europe, not so much.
- tty 13y agoDecided to google some, In all of EU, 40% of people have a credit card. You're right that it varies greatly throughout the countries. The highest credit card per capita rate is in Luxembourg, with around 3 per capita (for comparison's sake, in the US it's 3.5 per capita, in most EU countries at 1 per capita). The highest ownership rate is in Luxembourg, with 87% of people having one. The lowest is in Hungary, with only 9% of the people having a credit card. Some other countries: Denmark 71%, Bulgaria 12%, Lithuania 16%, Romania 17%. The rest of the EU countries can be seen here, on page 13 http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_373_en.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_373_en.p...
- jpswade 13y agoOnly 10% of UK citizens have never used the Internet? That's not what ons data says[1] [1] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access-quarterly-update/2013-q1/stb-ia-q1-2013.html http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access-quarterl...
- jonny2112 13y agoI find it interesting that Greece and Italy, both of whom are in a financial crisis have some of the lowest internet uses rates it the EU. I wonder what the correlation between the economic crisis and this is.
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- MistahKoala 13y agoFor a post-agrarian economy like Greece where ~half the population lives in Athens? Probably quite weak.
- arbuge 13y agoI believe the number is around 20% overall for the USA. In the 65+ age bracket, it's much higher - around 44%: http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2013/08/tackling-greatest-digital-divide/68363/ http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2013/08/tackling-greate...
- andridk 13y agoSo 22% of European people still have relative privacy. I am a bit jealous.
- keithpeter 13y agoIs the 2400 baud modem and NC100 in a cabin in the mountains not available in the US anymore? That might sound flippant, what I mean is when you drill into the 22% you will find it is people in remote areas with poor and expensive connectivity that make up the majority of those who do not use the Internet. Age profile might be an issue as well, although many older people are using the Web now to stay in contact with family who have moved to the cities. I'm actually considering dumping the landline and asdl over copper broadband at home here in a large city in the UK. I get internet access at work, in the local art centre and the local library (wifi) and can keep a pay as you go mobile broadband dongle for emergency use at home. This isn't anything to do with surveillance just that we are paying hundreds of pounds a year for a land line that gets hardly any use for actual voice calls.
- sliverstorm 13y agoAlmost noone I know still has a landline anymore. People usually go for cable or standalone DSL that provides the landline for a small fee but does not bill you for telephone service. Is that not an option there in the UK?
- keithpeter 13y agoStandalone DSL sounds great, but I suspect that won't exist in UK because of the local loop belonging to OpenReach and them charging providers for access. Will look around though.
- mbq 13y ago90% of Europeans, even technically illiterate, have a mobile phone, which is even worse for privacy than the iternet.
- djt 13y agotthis is probably more illuminating http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableActio... % of people that have NEVER used the internet
- simias 13y agoI'm afraid your link is broken. Was there POST data involved?
- goblin89 13y agoWhat constitutes Internet use in this research? Which part of the infrastructure has to be involved for it to count? Those questions don't have clear answers. According to Methodological Manual, they were asking questions such as “When did you last use the Internet?” during face-to-face and phone interviews. They did ask about using Internet and websites from mobile devices, in addition to “computers”. However, I'm not sure if many non-technical users would qualify updating an app (which may happen automatically), or performing various in-app activities (also may happen automatically, like updating weather forecast) as using the Internet. So it seems to be more indicative of how many Europeans, of those who do agree to phone or face-to-face interviews, deliberately access email or web sites.
- ezequiel-garzon 13y agoI agree. Here in Spain, even the oldest grandpas are using WhatsApp. Is that using the Internet? Maybe they meant the web...
- randyrand 13y agoIn light of this does the United Nation's decision last year that Internet Access should be a basic human right hold water considering that so many freely choose to go without it? Here's the list for comparison: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
- Gonzih 13y agoHappy people :)
- Nux 13y ago22% still have a life then.