90.8%
Simple mean internet-penetration rate across the 51 included countries.
Internet penetration · ECS · 2024
Internet penetration in Europe & Central Asia
90.8% is the simple average internet-use rate across the 51 countries with verified 2024 observations in Europe & Central Asia; the median is 92.0%. Denmark ranks highest at 99.8%, while Tajikistan ranks lowest at 55.8%.
2024 · 51 COUNTRIES · ITU VIA WDIRegional picture
92.0%
The midpoint reduces the influence of unusually high or low observations.
44.0 pp
The difference between Denmark and Tajikistan; 29 countries are at or above 90%.
Highest internet penetration in Europe & Central Asia
The five highest verified 2024 country observations in this regional comparison are:
- 1. Denmark — 99.8%
- 2. Monaco — 99%
- 3. Norway — 99%
- 4. Luxembourg — 98.8%
- 5. Liechtenstein — 98.3%
2024 internet penetration ranking for Europe & Central Asia
Ranks apply only to the 51 countries with an official 2024 observation in this region. Missing countries are not backfilled from another year.
| Regional rank | Country | Internet users | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 99.8% | 2024 |
| 2 | Monaco | 99% | 2024 |
| 3 | Norway | 99% | 2024 |
| 4 | Luxembourg | 98.8% | 2024 |
| 5 | Liechtenstein | 98.3% | 2024 |
| 6 | Iceland | 98.2% | 2024 |
| 7 | San Marino | 97.4% | 2024 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 97.3% | 2024 |
| 9 | Ireland | 97.2% | 2024 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 97% | 2024 |
| 11 | Belgium | 95.8% | 2024 |
| 12 | Spain | 95.8% | 2024 |
| 13 | Sweden | 95.5% | 2024 |
| 14 | United Kingdom | 95.5% | 2024 |
| 15 | Austria | 94.9% | 2024 |
| 16 | Andorra | 94.4% | 2024 |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 94.4% | 2024 |
| 18 | Belarus | 94.3% | 2024 |
| 19 | Hungary | 93.8% | 2024 |
| 20 | Finland | 93.7% | 2024 |
| 21 | North Macedonia | 93.6% | 2024 |
| 22 | Germany | 93.5% | 2024 |
| 23 | Kazakhstan | 93.4% | 2024 |
| 24 | Latvia | 92.7% | 2024 |
| 25 | Estonia | 92.2% | 2024 |
| 26 | Kyrgyz Republic | 92% | 2024 |
| 27 | Romania | 91.3% | 2024 |
| 28 | Slovenia | 90.8% | 2024 |
| 29 | Azerbaijan | 90.4% | 2024 |
| 30 | Slovak Republic | 89.8% | 2024 |
| 31 | Cyprus | 89.6% | 2024 |
| 32 | Uzbekistan | 89.5% | 2024 |
| 33 | Italy | 89.2% | 2024 |
| 34 | Lithuania | 89.2% | 2024 |
| 35 | Montenegro | 88.9% | 2024 |
| 36 | France | 88.7% | 2024 |
| 37 | Poland | 88.6% | 2024 |
| 38 | Portugal | 88.5% | 2024 |
| 39 | Serbia | 87.7% | 2024 |
| 40 | Czechia | 87.7% | 2024 |
| 41 | Turkiye | 87.3% | 2024 |
| 42 | Greece | 86.3% | 2024 |
| 43 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 86.1% | 2024 |
| 44 | Albania | 85.9% | 2024 |
| 45 | Georgia | 83.8% | 2024 |
| 46 | Croatia | 83.6% | 2024 |
| 47 | Ukraine | 82.5% | 2024 |
| 48 | Bulgaria | 82.4% | 2024 |
| 49 | Armenia | 81.3% | 2024 |
| 50 | Moldova | 77.4% | 2024 |
| 51 | Tajikistan | 55.8% | 2024 |
How to use this comparison
Internet penetration here means the share of the population counted by indicator IT.NET.USER.ZS — Individuals using the Internet (% of population). The regional average is a simple average of the included country percentages, not a population-weighted regional internet-user share.
The regional average and median describe this same-year observation set; they do not explain why countries differ. Open a country profile for its exact observation, national context and machine-readable evidence.
Source and scope
Indicator: IT.NET.USER.ZS — Individuals using the Internet (% of population). Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), surfaced via World Bank WDI. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
This is a regional view of the verified 2024 snapshot, not a historical revision product or a causal analysis. Region membership comes from the official World Bank country metadata used by the normalized source.