You may think that life without Internet is impossible, but that’s probably because you are a user. However, there are still people who don’t use Internet at all and in Russia 17% of respondents to a recent survey confessed they don’t use the worldwide web.
17% of Russians don’t use Internet
According to a recent survey by WCIOM.ru, 17% of respondents in Russia don’t use Internet. Further 1% use it just a few times per year and 3% several times per month.
The majority of participants, however, use Internet daily (72%), with 31% of them spending online over 4 hours a day.
In the beginning of 2020, 69% of Russian respondents said they were online daily.
What do people in Russia use Internet for?
The most popular use is communication with friends and family and getting news.
- Communicating with family and friends: 90%
- To get news about my town, country, and the world: 83%
- Entertainment (movies, books, games): 73%
- Banking: 80%
- Paying bills: 70%
- Education and learning: 65%
- Government services (documents): 64%
- Working: 51%
- Purchasing large goods (furniture, gadgets, appliances): 42%
- Purchasing groceries: 27%
How much would your usual life change if Internet disappeared tomorrow?
If your life would have to be adjusted in a major way with a sudden disappearance of the worldwide web, most Russians agree: 41% say it would be a major change (but they would be able to adjust), while further 13% cannot even think what would they do if this happened.
However, 20% of respondents from Russia or 1 in 5 people are confident it wouldn’t change a thing in their lives (let’s don’t forget that 17% of people don’t use Internet and 4% use it rarely.
25% of respondents (1 in 4 people) think that the changes to their lives would be minor.
At the same time, 27% of respondents believe that in the modern world one has to be always “on the net”, while 70% of participants think that people should take a break from the online world from time to time.
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- Bloggers and blogging in Russia
- What are Russians proud and ashamed of about their country? Survey results
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