site.bta96.1% of Enterprises with 10 or More Staff and 83.5% of Households in Bulgaria Have Internet

Sofia, December 10 (BTA) - In 2021, 96.1 per cent of non-financial enterprises with ten or more staff have access to Internet, the National Statistical Institute said Friday. 83.5 per cent of Bulgarian households have Internet in their homes.

85.7 per cent of businesses have fixed Internet connection and for 39.8 per cent the maximum download speed is higher than 100 Mbps.

Nearly two-thirds of companies (63.4 per cent) with 250 or more employees have Internet speed of more than 100 Mbps.

In 2021, 58.4 per cent of companies provide their staff with devices allowing mobile Internet connection. That is 5.5 percentage points more than in 2020.

This year, 51.9 per cent of companies have their own website as the share is largest (87.7 per cent) for companies with 250 or more employees. 38.9 per cent use the social networks in their activity, and this relative share is 5.1 percentage points bigger than in 2019.

A total of 12.8 per cent use paid cloud services to optimize their business processes. The majority of these have 250 staff or more. 15 per cent use various intranets to optimize their business.

Only 11.8 per cent of companies sell goods and services online and the turnover from online trade is 6.2 per cent from their total turnover.

Over the past ten years, the share of companies that sell online has nearly doubled.

In 2021, 83.5 per cent of Bulgarian households have Internet in their homes, which is 4.6 percentage points more than a year earlier. 75 per cent of households have mobile connection and 62.7 per cent fixed cable connection.

The share of households with Internet connection is biggest in the Southwestern Region (86.2 per cent) and smallest in the Northwestern Region (73.5 per cent).

The share of Internet users is 87.4 per cent among city-dwelling households and 71.5 per cent among rural households. Households with children are bigger users of the world-wide web: 96.7 per cent have internet connection against 80 per cent among childless households.