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Share of people in Germany visiting online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines from 2014 to 2020, by formal education

Characteristic	Low formal education	Medium formal education	High formal education
2020	58%	77%	90%
2019	51%	71%	86%
2017	48%	67%	84%
2016	48%	64%	82%
2015	46%	63%	81%
2014	44%	60%	77%

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May 2021

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Germany

Survey time period

2014 to 2020

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Low formal education: At most lower secondary education; Medium formal education: Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education; High formal education: Tertiary education

Supplementary notes

* No data available for 2018
The aim of the European ICT surveys is the timely provision of statistics on individuals and households on the use of Information and Communication Technologies at European level.
Data coverage corresponds to Dataset [ISOC_BDE15CUA] code [I_IUNW1] of the (Information and Communication Technologies) survey.

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The European questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies Data reveals that there exists a disparity between the internet usage of people with a low (At most lower secondary education), medium (Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education), and high (Tertiary education) formal education level. This disparity although present in most countries, differs widely in its severity.
In 2020, 58 percent of users with low formal education in Germany responded that they used the internet to access online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines. A higher share of users with medium or higher education tended to use the internet to access news. According to the survey 77 percent of people with a medium level of formal education and 90 percent of users with a high degree of formal education accessed online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines. The disparity between people with lower and higher formal education in 2020 was 32 percent.