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Household Internet Access Statistics: Europe, Portugal and the Philippines

Household internet access statistics for Europe, Portugal and the Philippines, with 2025 data on countries, rural coverage, household composition and income.

November 12, 2026 9 min read computerlaptopbattery.com Editorial Team

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Household internet access statistics across Europe in 2025

In 2025, 95% of EU households had access to the internet at home. That measure describes household access, rather than whether a broadband network was available nearby. Eurostat reports the highest national shares as 99% in both the Netherlands and Luxembourg, followed by Malta and Finland at 98% each. These are rounded values from Eurostat’s narrative; more precise 2025 country figures appear in the comparison below. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe

The figures give a broad view of household internet access across the EU, but they should be read with the survey population in mind. Eurostat’s household access measure covers households with at least 1 member aged 16–74. It concerns access at home in 2025; it does not report connection speed, frequency of use, or whether every household member uses the connection. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe

The country rankings show that high overall access can coexist with measurable differences between countries. The EU figure of 95% is a rounded aggregate, while individual country values may be reported to 1 decimal place in the country table. Those levels of precision should not be conflated: Eurostat’s country descriptions round the top values, while the CSO table provides decimal-point estimates for selected countries. Sources: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe; Central Statistics Office Ireland, Measuring Ireland’s Progress 2026: Society

Household internet access statistics by country

The following selected country figures are percentages of households with internet access at home in 2025. The CSO table’s population is households with at least 1 member aged 16–74. It provides a consistent measured series for these countries, including the Netherlands and Luxembourg, which Eurostat’s overview also identifies among the highest-access countries. Source: Central Statistics Office Ireland, Measuring Ireland’s Progress 2026: Society, Table 1.16

CountryHouseholds with internet access at home, 2025
Netherlands99.3%
Luxembourg99.1%
Malta97.8%
Finland97.6%
Cyprus97.5%
Spain97.4%
Denmark97.4%
Poland96.2%
Sweden95.7%
Ireland95.5%
Czechia95.5%
Romania95.5%
Greece88.7%
Croatia87.9%

The country range shown here runs from 87.9% in Croatia to 99.3% in the Netherlands. CSO’s account identifies Croatia as the EU27 low and Greece as the second-lowest, at 88.7%. These are household access figures, not broadband coverage estimates. The table is a selected set of country rows, so it is useful for illustrating the distribution and named comparisons, but it is not a complete listing of every country. Source: Central Statistics Office Ireland, Measuring Ireland’s Progress 2026: Society, Table 1.16 and accompanying text

The precision differs from Eurostat’s rounded narrative descriptions. For example, Eurostat gives the Netherlands and Luxembourg as 99% each, while the CSO country table reports 99.3% and 99.1%, respectively. Malta’s and Finland’s rounded Eurostat values of 98% are reported as 97.8% and 97.6% in the table. These values are not competing definitions in the checked evidence: they reflect different rounding detail. Sources: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe; Central Statistics Office Ireland, Measuring Ireland’s Progress 2026: Society

Household internet access statistics across cities, towns and rural areas

Internet access at home varied by degree of urbanisation in the EU in 2025. Eurostat reports that 96% of households in cities had access, compared with 95% in towns and suburbs and 93% in rural areas. Each rate describes the share of households in that type of place with access at home, rather than the share of the land area served by a network. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe

EU household locationInternet access at home, 2025
Cities96%
Towns and suburbs95%
Rural areas93%

The location series shows a 3 percentage point span between cities and rural areas as reported. It should not be interpreted as proof that living in a particular place causes a household to have or lack access. These figures describe differences between place categories, and the checked report does not establish why the rates differ. They also measure household access, which is distinct from broadband network availability by technology. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe

Household internet access statistics by broadband technology and coverage

Network coverage is a separate measure from household internet take-up. Eurostat’s 2025 broadband coverage estimates report the share of households within reach of named technologies. For total EU household coverage, fixed broadband reached 98%, next-generation access (NGA) reached 95%, fixed very high capacity networks (VHCN) reached 86%, and the BEREC-defined VHCN category reached 82%. These are availability measures, not the share of households that subscribed to or used each service. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe, Figure 18

EU household network coverage measureTotal households, 2025
Fixed broadband98%
NGA95%
Fixed VHCN86%
VHCN, as defined by BEREC82%
5G97%
DSL70%
FWA76%
FTTP74%

Eurostat describes NGA as technologies capable of at least 30 Mbps and lists the technologies included in that category. It describes fixed VHCN as capable of gigabit connectivity. The figure also reports 5G coverage at 97%, alongside DSL at 70%, fixed wireless access (FWA) at 76% and fibre to the premises (FTTP) at 74%. The categories refer to different technologies or technology groupings; their percentages should not be added together. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe, Figure 18 and accompanying text

Rural figures show that coverage varies by technology. Fixed broadband coverage reached 93% of rural EU households in 2025, the same reported percentage as rural household internet access. The equality of those two reported values does not make them the same indicator: one is network coverage and the other is household access at home. Rural NGA coverage was 86%, fixed VHCN coverage was 67%, and the BEREC-defined VHCN category covered 73% of rural households. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe, Figure 18

The national access statistics and EU coverage figures answer different questions and use distinct evidence. A household may be in an area where a technology is available, but the coverage figure alone does not tell whether that household has taken up internet service. Similarly, the household access rates do not identify which broadband technology provides the connection. Keeping these distinctions clear makes comparisons between the country, location and technology measures more useful. Source: Eurostat, Towards Digital Decade targets for Europe

Household internet access statistics by household composition and income

Portugal’s 2025 household survey reports internet connection at home for private households across family-composition groups and equivalent-income quintiles. The survey represents resident households with at least 1 person aged 16–74, and the at-home access measures refer to the time of the survey. The selected figures below are percentages of households, with the indicator identified for each group. Source: Statistics Portugal, Survey on Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals – 2025, Figure 22

Portuguese household group, 2025Internet access at homeBroadband connection at homeFixed internet connection at homeMobile internet connection at home
With children99.2%97.3%95.9%62.1%
Without children89.0%———
First equivalent-income quintile79.4%74.5%71.8%42.1%
Fifth equivalent-income quintile97.1%94.7%92.4%—

For households with children, the survey reports 99.2% with internet access at home, 97.3% with broadband, 95.9% with a fixed connection and 62.1% with a mobile connection. For households without children, the checked figure reports 89.0% for internet access. The other cells are intentionally not shown as measured values here because the listed observations do not include values for those indicators in that group. Source: Statistics Portugal, Survey on Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals – 2025, Figure 22

The income comparison shows the same indicators for the first and fifth equivalent-income quintiles. In the first quintile, 79.4% of households had internet access, 74.5% had broadband, 71.8% had fixed internet, and 42.1% had mobile internet at home. In the fifth quintile, 97.1% had internet access, 94.7% had broadband, and 92.4% had a fixed connection. The source’s quintile labels refer to equivalent income; these figures do not by themselves explain the reasons for differences between groups. Source: Statistics Portugal, Survey on Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals – 2025, Figure 22

Household internet access statistics in Portugal and the Philippines

Portugal’s national 2025 survey puts household internet access at home at 90.9%. The comparable reported value for 2024 was 90.6%, which the survey describes as similar to the 2025 result. The 2025 data were collected from May 15 to August 11, 2025, and the at-home access measure refers to survey time. These are private-household figures, with households and families treated as synonymous in the report. Source: Statistics Portugal, Survey on Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals – 2025, page 21 and Figures 20–21

The Portugal survey separately reports connection types at home in 2025: 87.5% of households had broadband, 85.0% had a fixed internet connection, and 54.7% had a mobile internet connection. Fixed technologies were predominant in Portuguese homes, according to the report. These connection-type measures are distinct from the 90.9% overall internet-access rate, and the listed percentages do not represent mutually exclusive household groups. Source: Statistics Portugal, Survey on Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals – 2025, Figures 21–22

In the Philippines, the 2024 National ICT Household Survey reported that 48.8% of total households, or 13.56 million households, had internet access at home. The release labels the 2024 results preliminary. For comparison across time, its revised 2019 figure was 17.7%. The years refer to the survey results reported, so the earlier figure should not be presented as a current estimate. Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Percentage of Households with Internet Connection Increased to 48.8 percent in 2024; Two in Every Three Individuals Aged 10 Years and Over Used the Internet

The 2024 Philippine regional results also show variation: 68.7% of households in the National Capital Region had internet access at home, and Central Luzon recorded 61.3%. The release reported 27.7% in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and 21.2% in Zamboanga Peninsula. All four values are regional household access rates for 2024, reported as preliminary results. They should be read as regional comparisons from that survey, not as national rates or measures of broadband technology coverage. Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Percentage of Households with Internet Connection Increased to 48.8 percent in 2024; Two in Every Three Individuals Aged 10 Years and Over Used the Internet, page 2

The Philippine release’s connection-type percentages are multiple-response measures among households with internet at home, so they do not add to 100%. This is a different presentation from a single overall access rate. Across the country examples here, the measures also differ in year and population definition: Portugal reports 2025 private-household survey results, while the Philippines reports preliminary results for total households in 2024, alongside a revised 2019 comparison. Those dates and definitions should remain attached to the figures when they are reused.

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