1 in 5 Europeans Has Never Used the Internet

Nearly one in five Europeans aged 16 to 74 have still never used the Internet, according to the latest results in an annual survey released from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office.

When asked, “When did you last use the Internet?”, 18 percent of people surveyed answered “never,” down from 43 percent in 2006. Only 1 percent of people in Iceland said they had never used the Internet, while 94 percent said they used it every day. Less than 5 percent of people in Norway, Denmark and Luxembourg said they had never used the Internet. The number of Brits who said they had never used the Internet dropped to 6 percent in 2014 from 29 percent in 2006. Romania had the most people offline, with 39 percent saying they had never used the Internet.