We all talk a lot about digitalization, especially since the pandemic began, but we did not expect such good news. According to the latest Eurostat survey, young people in Croatia are the best in digital skills across the European Union. They demonstrated this in a kind of test that all respondents underwent. Among all EU member states, Croatia had the highest share, at 97 percent, of youth aged 16 to 24 possessing basic and advanced digital skills.
Levels of digital literacy
Young Croats left behind some digital nations such as Estonia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands, which recorded 93 percent, and Greece with 92 percent. At the bottom of the Eurostat list were Romania (56 percent), Bulgaria (58 percent), Italy (65 percent), Hungary (68 percent), and Latvia and Luxembourg with 75 percent each. According to the survey, in 2019 it was recorded that four out of five young people aged 16 to 24 in the European Union mastered digital skills at a basic or advanced level.
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The basic level of digital literacy included simple tasks such as copying a folder from one place to another, transferring a document from one computer to another, and using word processing programs like Word.
Poorer knowledge
In the category of young people aged 25 to 29, Croatia ranked third with 92 percent of young people possessing digital skills. However, to ensure that not everything can be so bright for us in Croatia, the age group of those aged 35 to 44 showed the poorest knowledge and placed us at the bottom of the table. This group is led by Iceland, where 92 percent of individuals demonstrated commendable digital skills.
Nenad Bakić commented on the good results on his LinkedIn profile, stating that a small part of the credit for these results goes to the ‘Croatian Makers’ program he launched six years ago. This is the largest non-governmental educational movement (program) in the European Union, reaching over 200,000 children in Croatia and several tens of thousands in other countries. ‘We have educated over 3,000 teachers in Croatia for free. The impact is not only on those 200,000 but also on the culture they spread,’ commented Bakić.
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