Two in five Germans have Net access - 10/2001

Newsbytes reports that 24.8 million Germans, or 39 percent of the German population over the age of 14, now have Internet access.

This is according to a study by trade journal Media Perspectiven. According to the study, 11.1 million Germans had Internet access in 1999, and 18.3 million had access last year.

Men are more likely to have Internet access in Germany than women are. Almost half of men over the age of 14 are online, in comparison with only 30 percent of women.

Teenagers are more likely than any other age group to have Internet access: 67.4 percent of them are online, compared with 65.5 percent of those in their twenties, 50.3 percent of thirty-somethings, and 49.3 percent of those in their forties.

Thirty-two percent of those aged between 50 and 59 are online, as are 8 percent of those over 60.

On average, German users go online 4.3 times a week, spending 107 minutes online each time.

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