The best performer is Denmark with the digital performance score of 0.68 on the scale to 1.
Croatia's score is 0.37, and the three worse performers than Croatia are Italy and Greece with 0.36 each, Bulgaria (0.33) and Romania (0.31).
The Digital Economy and Society Index is a composite index and one of its segments is about e-commerce among small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) that shows that only 15% of SMEs in the whole of the EU sell online however, Croatia's performance is better given that 25% of Croatian SMEs sell online.
A majority of Europeans use the Internet on a regular basis: 75% in 2014 (72% in 2013), ranging from 93% in Luxembourg to 48% in Romania, while Croatia lags behind the EU average, as 65% of Croatians use the Internet on a regular basis.
"Digital public services are an everyday reality in some countries but almost non-existent in others: 33% of European Internet users have used online forms to send information to public authorities, ranging from 69% in Denmark to 6% in Romania. 26% of general practitioners in Europe use e-prescriptions to transfer prescriptions to pharmacists over the Internet, but this varies from 100% in Estonia to 0% in Malta," the EC stated on its web site.
"Europeans are eager to access audiovisual content online: 49% of Europeans who go online have played or downloaded games, images, films or music. 39% of households that have a TV watch video on demand."
Andrus Ansip, Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, was quoted by the EC as saying that "these figures show Europe is going digital, and Europeans enjoying great new services. The vast majority of Europeans are going online: citizens want to access online content, we need to make it easier for them. A Digital Single Market can give them wider access, help businesses innovate and grow, and boost trust in online services like e-government or banking. The European Commission will help make it happen."