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Press release No. N 011 of 8 February 2021 Safer Internet Day: 61% of 10 to 15-year-olds active on social networks in 2020
For children and young people, access to digital media is a way of participating in social life, not only since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The internet is part of the daily lives of most children and young people. To mark the Safer …
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Press release No. 191 of 12 June 2017 Conference on the "G20 Africa Partnership": only one in four people use the internet in Subsahara Africa
The extent of internet use varies between different parts of the world. In 2016 roughly 79% of the population in Europe made use of the World Wide Web, while the relevant proportion was only 25% in Africa south of the Sahara. An average of 47% of the …
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Press release No. 114 of 5 April 2017 Online banking slightly more popular in Germany than across the EU
In Germany, 53% of the population aged between 16 and 74 years did online banking in 2016. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was an increase of ten percentage points compared with 2010 (43%). Across the countries of the …