Individuals using the Internet for selling goods or services

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Análisis

13% of the EU-27 population used the Internet for selling goods or services in 2010, 8 percentage points more than in 2004. This evidences the increasing trend of eCommerce use by citizens. There are important differences between the European countries. While in countries like Denmark and The Netherlands 28% and 24% of the population respectively has used the Internet for selling in the last 3 months, in others like Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece or Romania this indicator hardly reaches 2%. Spain records 6%, ahead of countries like Italy and Slovakia.

    

Ficha técnica
Origen
Entidad
Eurostat
Informe
Eurostat ‘Information Society Statistics’
Frecuencia
Annual
Descripción

Number of individuals, expressed as a percentage of the total population, who have used the Internet for selling goods or services in the last three months.

Período
2004-2010
Observaciones

Last update: February 2011

 

Data provided to Eurostat by the competent authorities of the Member States (Eurostat: Statistical Office of the European Communities responsible for providing the European Union with statistical information at European level and promoting the harmonisation of statistical methods across the Member States). 

The sample is composed of individuals between the ages of 16 and 74 years.