The bar graph illustrates the household rates in both cities and provinces in Europe concerning internet access from 1999 to 2004.
Overall, the proportion of both urban/suburban and rural homeowners experienced a steady rise throughout the years. Despite this, the majority of the households that had such access to the internet were based in the cities of Europe.
On the one hand, approximately 10 percent of homeowners in metropolitan areas had access to the internet in 1999. From then on, their proportion continued an upward trend until 2004, reaching more than 50 percent. Their proportion, however, remained stable from 2002 to 2004, when they made up more than half of the households accessing the internet in urban areas.
On the other hand, the percentage of homeowners with internet access in rural communities did not even reach 10 percent in 1999, but not until 2001. Subsequently, it climbed up to approximately 20 percent and 30 percent of homeowners in rural areas accessing the internet in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Regardless, the household rates with internet access in the provinces remained lower than those in European cities.