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.
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Internet World Stats. (June 30, 2021). Number of internet users in EU countries as of December 2020 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 21, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/252753/number-of-internet-users-eu-countries/
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