The graph illustrates the share of families from the European urban/suburban and rural areas who had access to the Internet in the period from 1999 to 2004.
To beging with, there is a clear upward trend in obtaining access to the World Web within both urban and rural European households that is constantly rising in the period of 5 years. With urban households, comparing to urban, obviously dominating in the share of having the access to the Internet, there is still a sufficient growth of families getting Internet in suburban regions.
According to the graph, there happens an overall vivid growth of accessing the Internet within Urban and suburban families starting from approximately 15% in 1999 and rising up to 55% in 2004, which basically means that by that year every second family had the Internet in the house. However, the boom can be seen between 1999 and 2002 from 15% to 50%, as after 2002 the growth is not efficient, and rising by 1-3 percents by an year.
Meanwhile, only 2% of rural housholds obtain Internet acces in 1999, which is extremly low comparing to urban/suburban areas. Furthermore, the growth in the share of having Internet access seems to be inefficient within the timeframe of 1999 to 2002. Nontheless, the amount of these households grew significantly in 2003 with 25% and 2004 with 35%, which means that to 2004 almost every third houshole had Internet access.