(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 27 JAN - Bulgaria has the lowest share of people aged 16-74 in the European Union that had used the internet during the previous three months, new data from Eurostat show. The share in Bulgaria was 68% in 2019, followed by Romania (74%), Portugal (75%) and Italy (76%), while the highest share was registered in Sweden (98%). The EU average currently stands at 87%, while in 2007 it stood at 57% and in 2013 at 75%, Eurostat added. The share of people aged 16-74 using the internet was lower than the EU average also in Greece (76%), Croatia (79%), Poland (80%), Hungary (80%), Lithuania (82%), Slovakia (83%), Slovenia (83%), Latvia (86%) and Czechia (87%). Internet use has grown rapidly since 2007, jumping for instance from 31% to 68% in Bulgaria, from 24% to 74% in Romania and from 33% to 76% in Greece. The internet was used mainly to send and receive e-mails (75%), to find information about goods and services (68%), for instant messaging (67%) and online news (63%), the EU statistical office added. (ANSA).