According to the report, this situation reflects at workforce level, therefore, 83% of the Romanian workforce has low digital skills and 41% has no digital skills, compared to 39% and 14%, respectively, for the EU average.
The number of people in the EU using the internet at least once a week has increased from 60% to 72% since 2010 and Romania is among the countries that registered major progress in this respect.
At the EU level, half of the population made online purchases and made use of the internet for eGovernment services, while in Romania, only 8.3% and 5% of the population, respectively, used these services.
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