Within the Member States for which data are available, more than half of the population surveyed had no basic computer skills in Greece (65 percent), Italy (59 percent), Hungary (57 percent), Cyprus and Portugal (both 54 percent) and Lithuania (53 percent). On the other hand, less than a quarter of the population in Denmark (10 percent), Sweden (11 percent), Luxembourg (20 percent), Germany (21 percent) and the United Kingdom (25 percent) were non e-literate.

In the EU25 on average, 65 percent of people aged 55 to 74 had no computer skills. This percentage ranged from 27 percent in Denmark and Sweden to 93 percent in Greece.

As a general rule, the unemployed were more likely to have no computer skills than the population as a whole, except in Greece, where 56 percent of unemployed had no computer skills, compared to 65 percent of the total population, Cyprus (42 percent compared to 54 percent), Germany (16 percent compared to 21 percent) and Sweden (10 percent compared to 11 percent).

In all Member States education level played an important role in improving e-skills, with levels of non e-literacy falling as education levels rise. On average in the EU25, only 11 percent of those with higher education had no basic computer skills, ranging from 2 percent in Sweden to 24 percent in Estonia, while 41 percent claimed high level skills.