Share of people in France accessing online media sites, by formal education
In 2019, 33 percent of users with low formal education in France responded that they used the internet to access online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines. A higher share of users with medium or higher education tended to use the internet to access news. According to the survey 52 percent of people with a medium level of formal education and 73 percent of users with a high degree of formal education accessed online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines. The disparity between people with lower and higher formal education in 2019 was 40 percent.