{"id":11326,"date":"2025-07-15T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11326\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:46:04","slug":"97-of-young-people-in-the-eu-use-the-internet-daily-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11326\/","title":{"rendered":"97% of young people in the EU use the internet daily – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, 97% of people in the EU<\/a> aged 16-29 years reported using the internet<\/a> every day compared with 88% of the total population, a difference of 9 percentage points<\/a> (pp).<\/p>\n

This gap has been consistently narrowing during the past decade. In 2014, 87% of young people used the internet daily, while the share of the total population was 63% (a gap of 24 pp).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

Source dataset: isoc_ci_ifp_fu<\/a><\/p>\n

In all EU countries, young people were much more likely to participate in social network activities than the total population.
Creating a user profile and posting messages or related activities was a widespread practice for 88% of 16 to 29-year-olds compared with 65% of the total population.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The highest share of 16 to 29-year-olds who participated in social network activities was found in Czechia (99%), ahead of Cyprus and Greece (both 98%). Meanwhile, France (70%, 2023 data), Italy (80%) and Germany, Slovakia and Bulgaria (all 84%) registered the lowest shares.<\/p>\n

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

Source dataset: isoc_ci_ac_i<\/a><\/p>\n

This article marks World Youth Skills Day<\/a> on 15 July, which focuses this year on youth empowerment through AI and digital skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, 97% of people in the EU aged 16-29 years reported using the internet every day compared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4074,4075,174,11304,74,11303],"class_list":{"0":"post-11326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-ict","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-yth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}