EU: internet penetration rate 2019-2021, by country

In 2021, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) ranked Iceland, Norway, Ireland, and Luxembourg as the European Union member states with the highest share of the population using the internet. Each of the leading countries had an online usage penetration rate of more than 97 percent. In the same year, Bulgaria was the EU state with the lowest internet penetration rate, with only 73.93 percent of people using the internet in the country. Overall, the average internet penetration in the European Union was over 87 percent.