{"id":27096,"date":"2015-10-07T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T08:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=27096"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:50:22","slug":"silver-surfers-what-eu-countries-account-for-the-largest-number-of-connected-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/silver-surfers-what-eu-countries-account-for-the-largest-number-of-connected-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Surfers : what EU countries account for the largest number of connected seniors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 1st of October, 2015, Eurostat <\/strong>published the 2014 demographic indicators for the elderly who live in the European Union.<\/p>\n

The use of the Internet<\/strong> by elderly people was one of the criteria Eurostat was interested in. European seniors still do not use the Internet as much as the rest of the population; however, Eurostat noted that northern European countries accounted for the largest number of \u201cSilver Surfers\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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42% of European seniors use the Internet<\/h2>\n

\"Internet-Tablette-Informatique\"<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Eurostat, in 2014, less than half of the European population aged from 65 to74 years old has already used the Internet.<\/p>\n

However, there are noticeable discrepancies for each member country<\/strong>. More than two thirds of the population aged from 65 to 74 years old use the Internet in Denmark (84%), Sweden (81%), Netherlands (76%), the UK (70%) and Finland (68%). In constrast, less than 20% of elderly people use the Internet in Romania and Bulgaria (10% for each), Greece (14%), Cyprus (16%) and Croatia (17%).<\/p>\n

Elder Internet users in the EU mainly use the Internet for the following reasons:<\/strong><\/p>\n