Number of internet users in EU countries 2020

The EU country with the highest number of internet users is Germany. This stood at nearly 79.1 million as of December 2020, roughly 95 percent of the entire population. The second highest figure was seen in France. Meanwhile there were 390 thousand internet users in Malta, making it the country with the lowest number of internet users in the EU.

Internet access in the EU

Over the past decade the share of households with access to the internet in the European Union (EU) has grown to reach 91 percent in 2020 . This was a 36 percent increase from 2007, where just 55 percent of all EU households had internet access. As a whole, internet usage in Europe continues to rise with mobile internet in particular having seen substantial year-on-year growth since its infancy a decade ago. This growth is expected to continue, with 83 percent of Europeans forecast to have mobile internet access by 2025.

Internet use worldwide

According to a 2019 survey, Europeans and North Americans spent more time accessing the internet via computers and tablets than they did via mobile. Meanwhile, in every other region more time online was spent on mobile devices. Latin Americans in particular spent the most time online, an average of 4 hours and 35 minutes each day. Thanks to the boom in mobile internet, worldwide spend on both the Google Play and Apple App Store is also forecast to increase each year. Overall, spend on the App Store is expected to be more than double that on Google Play.