The number of regular internet users in Ukraine – defined as people who go online at least once a month – has decreased by 600,000 people over the last six months, the Ukrainian Internet Association, or UIA has reported.
The nonprofit published a report on Jan. 16 linking the drop in the number of regular internet users in Ukraine to the high number of people aged from 18 to 45 that are emigrating from the country.
The UIA calculates that there were 21.6 million active internet users in July, while today the number has dropped to 21 million.
The average percentage of the population connecting to the internet at least once a month remains the same as in the first half of 2017, at about 65 percent. In large cities 73 percent of the population are regular internet users, while in rural areas it is 52 percent.
The most active internet users, according to the nonprofit, are Ukrainians aged 30 to 44 (36 percent of the total) and 15 to 29 (35 percent of the total).
Only 4 percent of Ukrainians older than 65 years old use the internet.
There is no gender divide in internet use – the share of women in the total number of internet users is 51 percent.
A home laptop is the most common device used to connect to the internet. Smartphones are in second place.
The UIA also reported that Ukraine’s internet audience mostly visits the websites Google, Youtube, Facebook, VKontakte, and Yandex, even though the last two, which are popular Russian websites, are banned in Ukraine.
The study excluded Russian-occupied Crimea and the Russian-occupied parts of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.
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