The table illustrates how often mature people went online in one European nation between 2006 and 2010.
Overall, while there were increases in the percentage of daily and weekly Internet users, the opposite was true for those who only surfed the Internet three times a month or never. In addition, at the end of the period, daily users constituted the largest proportion.
In 2006, the proportion of daily Internet users relatively increased from 36% to 45% in 2008, with a subsequent surge to its peak of 72% in the final year. Regarding weekly mature users, there was a considerable growth in their figures from 15% in 2006 to 29% in 2008 before moderately declining by 7% in 2008.
Focusing on the figures for grown-ups who surfed online platforms three times per month, the data was recorded at 15% in the starting year, which remained stable at 15% in 2007 but it later gradually fell and hit its low of 5% in 2020. Meanwhile, the percentages for those who never went online witnessed a nearly twofold drop from 34% in 2006 to 16% in 2008, followed by a dip to only 1% in the end of the period.