Finland: purposes for internet use 2022

In 2022, the most common purposes for internet usage in Finland were banking and email services. According to the survey, 88 percent of respondents in Finland had sent or received emails and 90 percent used online banking services within the past three months. Other common internet usage purposes among Finns included reading online news, searching for information, and mobile instant messaging.

Purposes for using the internet in Finland in 2022

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Banking	90%
Email	88%
Reading news sites	86%
Finding information about products or services	85%
Mobile instant messaging on smartphone	77%
Watching online services of TV channels	77%
Finding information about health, nutrition and diseases	76%
Watching online video services	74%
Using social networks	70%
Listening to or downloading music	71%
Internet and video calls	68%
Buying products or services	58%
Streaming video on demand services	60%
Playing or downloading games	40%
Reading blogs	36%
Buying second hand products	34%
Listening to or dowloading podcasts	37%
Selling one's own products or services	29%
Studying online to complete a course	27%
Playing money games	27%
Taking a loan from banks or other financial institutions	7%

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

Finland

Survey time period

2022

Age group

16-89 years

Special properties

Usage within the last 3 months

Supplementary notes

The survey material is emphasized to correspond to the whole population and households, taking into account the response losses. The compilation of the statistics is regulated in the Statistics Act (280/2004).

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