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Young people have clearly benefited in many ways from the positive changes that have occurred throughout the region over the past decade. Indeed, they are heavy consumers of the media – in particular, the Net…- Several economies with relatively low-income levels have impressive Internet penetration levels. These include Bulgaria (20.5%), Romania (18.7%);
- At higher income levels, economies such as Estonia (52%), Slovenia (40.9%), Latvia (40.6%) have higher penetration rates than other economies at similar income levels;
- one such economy is Estonia where government initiatives aimed at promoting a computer-literate generation have been successful. In June 2004, TNS Emor Internet usage surveys show that 52% of Estonians between the ages of 6 and 74 use the Internet. The same study finds that the most active Internet users are people between the ages of 12 and 24, 90% of whom use the Internet. The percentages are also high for primary school students where 2/3 of students between the ages 6 and 9 are Internet users;
- in addition to teaching ICT skills early to students, Estonia’s policy makers have made promoting ICT use a priority. One example is new street signs giving the direction and distance to the nearest public Internet access point. The signs are marked with “@ Internet” , an arrow and the distance to the nearest of 700 public Internet access points across the country;
- in Croatia, half of the Internet users are younger than 26, one-third is between 26 and 35, and another fifth is between 36 and 55. While only 12% of Croatian households have a PC, 60% of Croatian Internet users have PCs in their households. The average Croatian Internet user spends 4.9 hours a week on the Internet. Users with Net access from home spend 6.7 hours a week online;
- in Poland, almost 60% of young people use the Internet: 58% of teenagers aged 15–19 browse web sites; 48% of them use e-mail applications. The remaining 10% use only the Internet communicators that have been growing more and more popular. The largest number of young Internet users (84%) lives in the cities (of 50,000–100,000 inhabitants and in the largest cities with the population over 500,000 inhabitants, where the percentage of young users amounts to 70%). The smallest proportion of teenage internauts (48%) live in the rural areas; (1)
- in the Czech Republic, 34.5% of adults have used the Internet. The average age of Internet users is under 25 (80% of all users are under 35). Up to 5 young users often share the same computer when accessing the net. In 2000, most people still go online from their office (56% of users) or school (16%), and almost 80% of the users were men. By 2001, the number of women users grew to 25%. Most users live in large cities or their vicinity. 60% of Czech users use the net daily;
- the average age of Internet users in Hungary is under 30, with the largest user group being the 19–24 age group. In 2003, 20% of the general population utilised the Internet, 30.2% at the beginning of 2005. There are currently more than 30 Internet service providers (ISPs) operating in the country. Under the EU-funded e-Europe Hungary program the EU back in 2000 began to implement a strategy to get more then 40% of the Hungarian population online by 2010.
- based on SIC Gallup Media information, the number of people in Lithuania using Internet at least once a month has increased from 9% in 2001 to 17% in 2002. 21% of Lithuanian residents used Internet at least once a half year - at least twice as many as the previous year (11%).
Internet usage in Eastern Europe (2) | | Internet Users, Latest Data | %Use Growth (2000-2005) | % Population (Penetration) | (%)EuropeUsers | | EU | | | | | | Czech Republic | 3,530,000 | 253.0 | 34.5 | 1.6 | | Estonia | 621,000 | 69.4 | 46.2 | 0.3 | | Hungary | 3,050,000 | 326.6 | 30.2 | 1.4 | | Latvia | 936,000 | 524.0 | 40.6 | 0.4 | | Lithuania | 695,000 | 208.9 | 20.3 | 0.3 | | Poland | 10,600,000 | 278.6 | 27.8 | 4.9 | | Slovakia | 1,820,000 | 180.0 | 33.8 | 0.8 | | Slovenia | 800,000 | 166.7 | 40.9 | 0.4 | | NON-EU | | | | | | Bulgaria | 1,545,100 | 259.3 | 20.5 | 0.6 | | Croatia | 2,318,240 | 1,059.1 | 52.0 | 0.9 | | Moldova | 288,000 | 1,052.0 | 6.9 | 0.1 | | Romania | 4,000,000 | 400.0 | 18.7 | 1.5 | | Russia | 22,300,000 | 619.4 | 15.5 | 8.6 | | Serbia & Montenegro | 847,000 | 111.8 | 7.9 | 0.3 | | Ukraine | 2,810,000 | 1,305.0 | 6.0 | 1.1 |
(1) GfK OnlineBus, first edition of GfK's Central & Eastern Europe Newsletter 2004.
(2) Source: www.internetworldstats.com - Internet usage and population statistics were updated on March 31, 2005. The most recent usage comes mainly from data published by Nielsen//NetRatings, ITU, CIA and other local NICs.
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