The graph below shows the percentage of urban/suburban and rural households in a European country that had acces between 1999 and 2004.

This

provided bar graph illustrates the proportions of families who lived in cities and villages who had access to the

Internet

from 1999 to 2004, in a period of five years.

Overall

, it can be seen that the

percentage

of

people

who used online services in towns was higher than that of rural folks over the given period.

To begin

, in 1999, the

ratio

of humankind in cities who accessed the

Internet

was, around 13% which was 10 times greater than the

percentage

of

people

who used online services in villages, at about 3%.

In addition

to that even though, in 2000 the

percentage

of households that had the ability to access the

Internet

doubled compared to1999, there was a slight increase in the

ratio

of rural

people

who used the

Internet

, in 2000.

However

, a dramatic elevation occurred in the proportion of the population who used the

internet

in towns, in 2001 and 2002, the

percentage

of rise in the usage of the

internet

among rural individuals was minor, at about a 2% increase, in 2001

Furthermore

, In 2003 the

ratio

of urban households that had access to the

Internet

elevated to around 52% which was two times more than the proportion of rural

people

who used online services in the same year.

Moreover

, in 2004 there was much reduction in the gap

ratio

between urban households and rural families for using the

Internet

.