Share of people in the Netherlands accessing online media sites, by formal education
In 2020, 68 percent of users with low formal education in the Netherlands 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 84 percent of people with a medium level of formal education 92 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 2020 was 24 percent.