Nearly 3 million Germans have never used the internet

Nearly 3 million Germans have never used the internet

For most people, using the internet is an essential part of daily life, but not for the estimated 4% of Germans who have not once gone online.

Almost 2.8 million people in Germany have never used the Internet.

Shopping, remittances, watching movies - a lot is going on online today. However, a good four percent of 16- to 74-year-olds have never used the Internet, but the number of non-users is decreasing.

Around four percent of people in Germany between the ages of 16 and 74 have never been online. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office. There are clear differences in the EU comparison.

Despite increasing digitalisation, some of the population lives completely without the Internet. Older people in particular continue to renounce online access.

About four percent of 16- to 74-year-olds across Germany do not use the Internet. That is about 2.8 million people - about 226,000 of them live in Berlin and Brandenburg. The older the people, the more so-called offline there are.