In Germany, around 2.8 million people have never used the Internet in 2024. The federal statistical office announced this and explained that it matches a four percent population stake. There are significant differences between age groups.
The age group of children between 65 to 74 years of age is particularly several internet notes, where every eighth eight are permanently offline. In a group of children aged 16 to 44 years, however, the ratio is only two percent. Compared to the previous year, the number of non -users is easier, from 3.1 million people from 2.8 million or five to four percent.
Compared to the European Union, the German has an average of five percent of the population and equivalent to Austria. In countries such as Sweden and Netherlands, the digitization of public administration is widespread, electronic payments are widespread. Accordingly, some people are offline there, no less than one percent of the population uses the Internet – the smallest part in the European Union. On the other hand, Croatia and Greece have the largest share with 14 and 11 percent. So every seventh and every tenth offline.
Germany is with internet users in the central region of the European Union.
(Image: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis))
Every third offline worldwide
In this way, even more people in Europe, even in countries with the highest proportion, still participate in the Internet compared to larger parts of the world. An estimate by United Nations International Telecommunications Association (ITU) 32 percent of the world’s population or 2.6 billion people are permanently offline.
The continent is Africa with very few internet users. But here too, the ratio of internet users increased rapidly, 25 percent to five years ago in 2024, 38 percent. For income levels, often prevents ineffective high access costs and lack of infrastructure, satellite internet is often cheaper than fixed internet access.
(Acha)
