The bar chart illustrates the percentage of people in five different European countries using the internet in 2000, while the pie chart shows the average amount of money spent shopping online.
Overall, Sweden and the UK were the two countries with the greatest percentage of internet users, and also the two countries with the highest average online shopping expenses. Furthermore, Spain had the fewest internet users and the lowest average spending on internet shopping.
In 2000, 35% of the Swedish population used the internet, while 20% of Brits were also internet users. Only 5% of people in Spain used the internet, which was half of the figure for France (10%), and one-third of the figure for Germany (15%).
British internet users had the highest average shopping expenses online, at €87, followed by the Swedes, at €76. The French and Germans had similar average internet budgets, at €57 and €46 respectively, while the Spanish only spent a mere average of €10 on online shopping.
