Bulgarians and Romanians shop least online of all EU citizens, a report from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, showed.

The results were published ahead of the Safer Internet Day on February 12, Dnevnik daily said.

The Safer Internet Day is intended to promote safer use of the Internet, especially by younger users.

According to Eurostat, in Bulgaria and Romania only three per cent of those interviewed have used online shopping. At the top of the ranking are the Danish, where 55 per cent has used online shopping.
The average for the EU was 30 per cent, Dnevnik said.

Online banking was most widely used in Finland, Estonia and the Netherlands. Bulgaria was again at the bottom of the ladder with only five per cent, while seven per cent of the Romanians used online banking. The average for the EU was 44 per cent.

The EU-27 average for internet use was 57 per cent. Of those, almost a quarter said they had had problems with viruses over the past 12 months. For Bulgaria, that figure was 17 per cent, even though online use in Bulgaria was at only 31 per cent.