Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
In 2023, 59% of EU institutions and companies reached at least a basic level of digital intensity. Among small and medium-sized enterprises, 58% reached at least a basic level of digital intensity last year, while the share of large companies was 91%.
According to what was published by the European Statistical Office in Brussels, "at least a basic level of digital intensity" - measured by the Digital Intensity Index (DII) - requires the use of at least 4 of 12 selected digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, social media, cloud computing, customer relationship management (CRM) or making e-commerce sales represent at least 1% of total sales.
The at least basic level includes companies with a low, high and very high level of the Digital Intensity Index (DII), excluding the very low level.
According to one of the Digital Decade targets, more than 90% of EU SMEs should reach at least a basic level of digital intensity by 2030. This means that last year, EU SMEs were 32 percentage points away from the Digital Decade’s 2030 ambition.
4.4% of EU SMEs had a very high level of digital intensity, while 19.6% had a high level. Most SMEs had low (33.8%) or very low (42.3%) levels of digital intensity.
The largest proportion of companies with a very high level of digital integration index was in Finland (13.0%), Malta (11.4%) and the Netherlands (11.0%).
At the same time, the countries with the largest number of companies with very low digital intensity were Romania (72.1%), Bulgaria (70.6%) and Greece (56.2%).