In the last three months prior to the 2019 survey on the use of ICT in households and by individuals, one in two EU citizens (53%) aged 16-74 reported that they sought online health information related to injury, disease, nutrition, improving health or similar. This was two percentage points (pp) higher than the previous year (53% compared with 51%) and up by 19 pp from 2009 (32%).
Over the last decade, the share of individuals seeking health information online has risen across all EU Member States. The highest increase was recorded in Cyprus (+53 pp), followed by Croatia (+37 pp), Czechia (+36 pp) and Greece (+35pp), while the lowest increases were observed in Luxembourg (+4 pp, break in time series in 2018), France (+13 pp), Italy (+14 pp) and Romania (+15pp).