Iceland, Scandinavia are Europe's top Internet users--study

[domainerph]

Iceland, Scandinavia are Europe's top Internet users--study

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 00:53:00 04/15/2008

VIENNA--Icelanders and the Scandinavians are Europe's top Internet users, the GfK market research group found in a study published Monday.

In Iceland, an estimated 88 percent of the population aged 14 and above use the Internet regularly, followed by 81 percent in Finland, 76 percent in Norway, 76 percent in Denmark and 73 percent in Sweden, the survey showed.

In western Europe, Malta ranks lowest in terms of Internet usage, with only 25 percent of the population regularly going online, followed by Spain with 35 percent, Portugal with 43 percent and Ireland with 45 percent.

Albania ranks the lowest in all of Europe, with only one percent of Albanians regularly surfing the web.

In Austria, 67 percent of the population are regular Internet users, compared iwth 63 percent in Britain, 61 percent in Germany, 56 percent in France and 53 percent in Italy.

With the exception of Slovenia which has a ratio of 61 percent and Estonia with 60 percent, Internet usage in all eastern Europe countries is less than one person in two, GfK found.

 

[frankiethepet]

well considering that ICELANDs population is only 300 hundred thousend... and Sweden population is 9 million... i mean... There is much more internet users in germany then in whole scandinavia...

 

[bricio]

this is because iceland and scandinavian countries are the most developed ones in the world in regards to education
as frankiethepet very well stated if we use number of people using internet and not only internet penetration in some countries, brazil, germany and many others have more users than these countries

 

[metronome]

well...if only icelanders and scandinavians are as many as the brazilians or germans or even indians...

 

[Pred]

it's all those dark hours and long nights
only a couple of things to do :blink:

mind you i bet in summer when it's 24 hour daylight to the extreme north i bet useage tails off