Sweden at the digital top

Sweden continues to be at the top of the EU’s ranking of member states’ digital maturity. Since last year we have climbed a location – but two years ago we were ranked as number one.

Only Denmark is ahead of us this year’s review of the digital maturity of EU countries. And the Swedes are diligent to use digital services. We put ourselves in the top when it comes to listening to music or watching movies online. And we also have the prerequisites – we are at the forefront of both the expansion of 4g and the proportion of households subscribing to ultra-fast broadband.

Sweden is also high-third in terms of using digital public services. 90 percent of internet users in Sweden submit forms digitally to the authorities.

The reason that Sweden is now getting a better position is that we are doing well in broadband expansion and the citizens’ use of the internet. But a big challenge is still the public sector. Here we need to switch up and offer better digital services in, for example, healthcare and other government contacts. We also need to continue to work actively to cope with the expansion of high-speed broadband in the countryside, “said Peter Eriksson, Minister for Digitalization in a comment.

But it’s not just that gems have a digital everyday life. Sweden is also second largest in terms of the number of IT specialists – after Finland. At the same time, the number of needs we have on long roads does not cover. And the number of graduates in science, engineering, engineering and mathematics is lagging behind many other EU countries.

Even though we remain at the top, we are not moving forward faster than other EU countries. Progress is generally in line with the EU average and other countries in the high-performing cluster are found in the EU report.

THE LIST

1. Denmark

2. Sweden

3. Finland

4. The Netherlands

5. Luxembourg

6. Ireland

7. Great Britain

8. Belgium

9. Estonia

10. Spain

11. Austria

12. Malta

13. Liechtenstein

14. Germany

15. EU in total

16. Slovenia

17. Portugal

18. Czechoslovakia

19. France

20. Latvia

21.Slovakien

22. Cyprus

23. Croatia

24. Hungary

25. Poland

26. Italy

27. Bulgaria

28. Greece

29. Romania