People searching health information online in European countries 2020, by gender
By 2020, 62 percent of female internet users in across the European Union (EU-27) used the internet to look up health information on the internet. Among men this share was lower with only 50 percent. Bulgaria, Poland, and Italy were among the countries with the lowest share of men and women searching for health information online. The opposite was the case for the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany.