As of 2022, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) ranked Norway and Denmark as the European Union member states with the highest share of the population using the internet. Both countries had an online usage penetration rate of more than 96 percent. In the same year, Bulgaria was the EU state with the lowest internet penetration rate, with only 79 percent of people using the internet. Overall, the average internet penetration in the European Union stood at around 89 percent.
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