The 49% of the population of Catalonia makes purchases online, six points more than the 43% of the total Spanish population that uses e-commerce and one point below the 50% of the European population that buys online.
The data, recently offered by the Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat), takes into account citizens between 16 and 74 years of age who have made a purchase online during the last three months.
As shown by the evolution of online shoppers over the last 13 years, in 2013 there was the same percentage of online shoppers (23%) in Catalonia as in Spain as a whole. Since that year, Catalonia has been ahead, reaching 49% this year 2018.
The following graph allows seeing the percentage evolution of online shoppers between 2006 and 2018 in Catalonia, Spain, the Eurozone, and the European Union.
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