According to Eurostat’s data for 2018, Luxembourg has the second-highest share of people aged 16-74 who used the internet in the previous three months. With a score of 97%, the only country to beat us was Denmark (98%), while the EU-28 average stands at 85%.
We are closely followed by the Netherlands and the UK, both at 95%, and Finland at 94%. At the bottom of the list is Bulgaria (65%), Romania (71%), Greece (72%), Italy (74%), and Portugal and Croatia (both 75%).
This raises the question of what people get up to when they go online. The categories available are pretty broad, but the only one where Luxembourg gets close to the top-5 is sending and receiving e-mails - which 84% of us do, while we’d need 86% to match Sweden and get from number 7 into the top-5.
Luxembourg (red) is above the EU average (blue) when it comes to sending e-mails, video/voice calls, social networking, and most other categories. However, we’re behind the EU average in terms of watching TV streams/replay, video on demand content, video watching on sharing sites, and using other commercial video streaming services.
Data source 1: internet activities
Data source 2: internet use
