EU27 Digital Skills Development 2017-2019

Key Insights:

• Above Basic Digital Skills (Overall): Showed positive growth from 29.04% in 2017 to 31.05% in 2019 (+2.01 percentage points)
• Combined Skills (Above Basic): Improved from 55.25% in 2017 to 56.06% in 2019 (+0.81 percentage points)
• Communication Skills (Above Basic): Significant improvement from 58.94% in 2017 to 64.70% in 2019 (+5.76 percentage points)
• Information Skills (Above Basic): Strong performance with 66.86% in 2017 increasing to 69.34% in 2019 (+2.48 percentage points)
• Problem Solving (Above Basic): Increased from 53.29% to 57.04% (+3.75 percentage points)
• Software Skills (Above Basic): Slight improvement from 38.74% to 39.16% (+0.42 percentage points)
• Low Skills Concern: Problem solving basic skills remained high at around 19-20%, indicating need for improvement

Chart Information:

Chart Type: Grouped Bar Chart

Primary Color: #18baa8 (Teal)

Secondary Color: #45d4c2 (Light Teal)

Time Period: 2017-2019

Unit: Percentage of individuals (PC_IND)

Data Source: Eurostat – isoc_sk_dskl_i