45.2% of enterprises in 2023

In 2023, 45.2% of European Union (EU) businesses will have adopted cloud computing services that are used over the internet to access software, computing power, and storage capacity. This represents an increase of 4.2 percentage points compared to 2021.

This information comes from data on information and communication technology (ICT) usage and e-commerce published by Eurostat today. In this article, some of the findings from a more detailed article in Statistics Explained are presented.

The highest shares of businesses purchasing various IT services were recorded in Finland (78.3%), Sweden (71.6%), Denmark (69.5%) and Malta (66.7%). At the other end of the spectrum, less than a quarter of businesses in Greece (23.6%), Romania (18.4%) and Bulgaria (17.5%) made such purchases.

The most purchased cloud computing services in 2023 were email services (82.7%), followed by file storage services (68.0%) and office software (66.3%). Security software applications (61.0%), finance or accounting software applications (51.6%) and enterprise database hosting services (43.0%) were also popular. Nearly a quarter of businesses purchased software platforms for application development, testing or deployment (26.1%), enterprise resource planning software (25.9%), computing power to run their own enterprise software (25.4%) or customer relationship management software (25.0%).