{"id":100484,"date":"2025-08-27T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100484\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:27:07","slug":"80-of-disabled-people-used-the-internet-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100484\/","title":{"rendered":"80% of disabled people used the internet in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, 82.3% of people in the EU<\/a> with severe disability<\/a> had used the internet in the past 12 months. Among those with moderate disability, the share was 89.0% and it was 95.2% for those with no disability. This means that the gap between those with severe disability and those without was 12.9 percentage points<\/a> (pp).<\/p>\n

Regarding some of the activities online, half of the people with severe disability (50.9%) used the internet to seek health-related information. For people with moderate disability, 59.1% sought health-related information, a little more than people without disability (58.4%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

While 51.0% of those with severe disability used the internet for online banking, this was the case for 59.6% of those with moderate disability. However, for people with no disability, the share was 69.3%.<\/p>\n

\"Use<\/a><\/p>\n

Source datasets: dsb_ictiu08<\/a>, dsb_ictiu07<\/a>, dsb_ictiu03<\/a> and dsb_ictiu04<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, less than a quarter (19.5%) of severely disabled people used the internet for learning activities, while the figures were much higher for the moderately disabled and people without disabilities, at 27.1% and 35.8%, respectively.<\/p>\n

While a little more than half of the severely disabled also use the internet for telephone or video calls (55.6%), this was the case for almost two thirds of people with moderate disability (64.7%) and three quarters of people with no disability (75.3%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, 82.3% of people in the EU with severe disability had used the internet in the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,5894,8157,8694,244,5896,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-100484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-data-driven-news","11":"tag-disability","12":"tag-ict","13":"tag-internet","14":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}