Only 23% of internet users in Romania are e-shoppers, the lowest rate adoption among EU member states
Almost 7 out of 10 internet users in the EU shopped online in the 12 months prior to the 2017 survey, according to the latest Eurostat figures published today. The proportion of e-shoppers varied considerably across the EU Member States, ranging from 23 % of internet users in Romania, 27 % in Bulgaria and 39 % in Cyprus, to 86 % in the United Kingdom, 84 % in Sweden and 82 % each in Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
E-shoppers in the 16-24 age group purchased mainly clothes and sports goods (71 % of all purchases). Household goods made up 50 % of the e-purchases for those aged 25-54, while 57% of the purchases made online by the older age group (aged 55-74) were for travel and holiday accommodation.
Anders Olofsson – former Head of Payments Finastra
Banking 4.0 – „how was the experience for you”
„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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