Individuals with basic or above basic digital skills (annual)

Annual share of individuals aged 16 to 74 with at least basic overall digital skills, for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidate countries and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset isoc_sk_dskl_i21 ("Individuals' level of digital skills (from 2021 onwards)"), filtered to the headline indicator I_DSK2_BAB ('Individuals with basic or above basic overall digital skills'), unit PC_IND (percent of individuals), total population 16-74. Each row is one (year, country). Method: Eurostat's ICT survey scores five competence areas (information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety, problem solving); a respondent counts as 'basic or above' when all five areas reach at least basic level. This is the EU Digital Decade headline target series. Units: percent of individuals. Caveats: the ICT survey runs the digital-skills module every two years, so observations are biennial (2021, 2023, 2025, ...) and the connector is declared yearly with no-op refreshes in off years; the 2021-onwards methodology is not comparable with the pre-2021 digital-skills series; Kosovo (XK) is dropped by the connector's commercial-use geo rule; the EU, EU27_2020 and EA aggregates are included as published. Coverage: ~38 geographic units after the geo rule, 2021 to the present. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the ICT indicators in spring. Sample use: filter country_code='DEU' to track Germany's progress toward the Digital Decade target.