08 Nov, 2011
10% of Portuguese shops online
According to data available from the Portuguese Statistics National Institute
(INE), 1 out of 10 Portuguese ordered items online on the first
trimester of 2011.
Between 2002 and 2011, the
proportion of people who shop through the Internet grew around
23%, as one can check on the INE's chart:
In terms of regions, the North is the region with the lowest percentage of online buyers (7.7%), whilst Lisbon has the higher (13.5%).