What do Romanians do on the Internet?

In 2014, over one-third of Romanians used the Internet to read online news, find information about goods and services, send emails, and chat via social networks. Reading online news/newspapers/magazines ranks first among Romanians’ online activities (70.3%), followed by searching for information on goods and services (65.7%), and playing or downloading games images, films or music (45.5%), according to recent data from the National Statistics Institute INS, cited by local Agerpres. In the last three months of 2014, Romanians mainly accessed the Internet for email correspondence (78.6% of the total number of people who went online in this period), and social networks (67%). Most of Romania’s active people, namely employees and employers, accessed the Internet to read online news/newspapers/magazines (75%, and 78.4% respectively), and search for information on goods and services (70.6 % and 82.8%). Three-quarters (77%) of Romania’s unemployed went online for email correspondence while two third of them accessed the Internet to search for information on goods and services. On the other hand, less than 3 out of 4 pensioners access the Internet to read online news/newspapers/magazines. Almost 98% of Romania’s students go online for communication, and 86.6% for social networks. There were 9.4 million Internet users aged between 16 and 74 in Romania at the end of 2014. Over half of Romania’s households have access to Internet Romanians use more mobile internet Romania has 9 of the world’s top 15 cities with fastest broadband internet Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com