About 5 percent of Flemish adults do not have access to the internet at home | Interior

It also appears that 82 percent of adult Flemish people have their own computer or laptop. About 81 percent have a smartphone and 51 percent a tablet. Nearly everyone under the age of 65 has internet at home.

Owning a smartphone is higher among young people (93 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds own one) than among older people (56 percent of people over 65) and higher among higher-skilled people (92 percent) than among low-skilled people (61 percent) .

Of the adults surveyed, 94 percent used their mobile phone at least weekly. More than 80 percent also use their computer, laptop or tablet every week. Older people use their mobile phone, computer, laptop or tablet less than younger age groups. For example, almost all 18 to 34-year-olds (99 percent) use their smartphone almost daily, while that figure is 70 percent among the over-65s. The use of the devices is also slightly higher among the higher educated than among the lower educated.

There is a striking decrease in the number of Flemings who read the newspaper. That number fell from 64 percent in 2021 to 59 percent in 2022. More men (63 percent) than women (56 percent) read the newspaper at least weekly. Newspaper use is also slightly higher among the elderly, couples and the highly educated.

Finally, it appears that watching television and listening to the radio is done less by young people than by the older groups. People who live with their parents also do so less than the other household groups. In terms of education, the share that watches television or listens to the radio is slightly higher among the highly educated than among the other groups. Young people, people living with their parents and the highly educated more often stream series and music.

The figures come from a survey by Statistics Flanders that was conducted in the autumn of 2022 among a sample of 6,000 inhabitants of the Flemish Region aged 18 and older.