Social-network participation in Europe
One survey measure. 28 geographies. 7 age groups. Explore the differences or work with the data yourself.
European Union, 2025
67.3%
of people aged 16–74 participated in social networks for private purposes in the three months before the survey.
Eurostat, isoc_ci_ac_i · All individuals aged 16–74 · EU27 aggregate.
588 records, including missing values. Retrieved 1 October 2026; evidence checked 1 October 2026 (UTC). This page and its download preserve the archived release; the explorer uses current data.
See the underlying table EU aggregate, 2023–2025
| Year | Participation | Source flags |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.3% | None supplied |
| 2024 | 64.8% | None supplied |
| 2023 | 59.3% | None supplied |
Source: Eurostat, isoc_ci_ac_i, EU27_2020 / IND_TOTAL / PC_IND. Display rounded to one decimal; CSV preserves source precision. These values are observations, not a calculated growth rate.
What is measured? Definition, population & coverage
People who used the internet to participate in social networks during the three months before the survey, such as creating a profile, posting messages or making other contributions.
2025 asks about private-purpose activities including via apps; examples may evolve. Annual national questionnaires can differ.
- Entity and denominator
- people. All individuals aged 16–74, or all individuals in the selected age band, in the survey population. Not only internet users.
- Source selection
- isoc_ci_ac_i · indic_is = I_IUSNET · unit = PC_IND · freq = A.
- Age groups
- All people 16–74; 16–24; 25–34; 35–44; 45–54; 55–64; 65–74. Codes: IND_TOTAL, Y16_24, Y25_34, Y35_44, Y45_54, Y55_64, Y65_74.
- Geographies
- 28 geographies: European Union - 27 countries (from 2020) and 27 member states.
- Reference period
- Three months before the survey. Annual reference years 2023–2025; national fieldwork dates may differ.
How comparable are the numbers? Limits & source flags
- Self-reported participation does not measure daily or monthly active accounts, time spent, any individual platform, or all ages.
- Age 16–24 includes both minors and adults; it is not a teen-only survey.
- National translation, sampling, survey mode, reference periods and nonresponse treatment can reduce comparability.
- Do not average national percentages to recreate the EU aggregate. Eurostat supplies the aggregate.
- Small differences are not evidence of statistical significance or causation.
- Indicator-specific sample sizes and confidence intervals are not supplied in this JSON-stat table. Differences are descriptive, not tests of statistical significance.
Flags in this release: Confidential; Break in time series; Low reliability. They remain attached to each affected observation in the download. Confidential values are missing; time-series breaks cannot support continuous growth calculations.
Read Eurostat’s statistical methods and quality metadataCitation & reuse Source credit to keep with your work
Eurostat. Individuals - internet activities, 2023–2025; People who used the internet to participate in social networks during the three months before the survey, such as creating a profile, posting messages or making other contributions. All individuals aged 16–74, or all individuals in the selected age band, in the survey population. Not only internet users. Question context: 2025 asks about private-purpose activities including via apps; examples may evolve. Annual national questionnaires can differ. Dataset isoc_ci_ac_i. SocialUsage selected release 2026-09-30-eurostat-v1, accessed 1 October 2026 (UTC). https://socialusage.com/data/europe-social-network-participation/versions/2026-09-30-eurostat-v1/ Source: Eurostat, isoc_ci_ac_i (accessed 2026-10-01). Selection and calculations by SocialUsage. Eurostat is not responsible for these changes.
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Source: Eurostat, isoc_ci_ac_i (accessed 2026-10-01). Selection and calculations by SocialUsage. Eurostat is not responsible for these changes.
The CSV includes geography, age, reference year, unit, flags, exact source references, original retrieval time, release version and attribution. It contains no individual-level survey responses.
Download release 2026-09-30-eurostat-v1 (.csv)Source lineage & review Follow the evidence
- A parameterised Eurostat Statistics API request retrieves values and status flags.
- Dimension codes and precision are preserved. Confidential and missing values stay missing.
- Validation checks coverage, range, duplicate keys, source metadata and compatibility. Changes and flags require review.
- An immutable snapshot records the observations, series and calculation inputs.
- Evidence review
- Assisted evidence check; independent human editorial approval has not been recorded. Reviewer/process: Codex-assisted evidence check.
- Review note
- Checked live official API, source dimensions, metadata and commercial reuse policy; corroborated 2025 EU and Denmark totals against Eurostat news. Preserved France 2024 confidentiality, France 2025 series breaks and Ireland low-reliability flags. Large annual changes are retained exactly as published, not interpreted as comparable growth; growth helper blocks movements over 10 percentage points pending national-method review. No human expert review or statistical significance claimed.
- Source updated
- 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Release published
- 1 October 2026 (UTC)
“Evidence checked” describes the recorded verification, not a new survey or expert review. The API supplies dataset last-update time, not the first publication date of every observation.
Open the original source tableRelease history 1 version
- 2026-09-30-eurostat-v1 — 1 October 2026 (UTC); 588 records · shown here.
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