Italy’s official statistics bureau, ISTAT, recently produced a report on the state of the internet in Italy.
The numbers do not paint a particularly positive picture.
In world terms, Italy sits at a lowly 22nd place in terms of worldwide internet usage. The European average is 73%, whereas in Italy the figure is 63%.
54,5% Italians have access to the internet today, which is up slightly from the 2010 figure of 52,4%. The number of broadband internet connections in Italy has grown a little too, from 43,4% al 45,8%.
Nearly 60% of Italy’s families have access to a computer, but, as
can be seen from the internet connection numbers, not every
Italian computer is connected to the internet.