9.2 Annex 2: Statistics of Development of the Information Society in Slovenia 9.2.1 Digital Economy and Society Index According to the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), Slovenia has an overall score of 0.4118 and ranks 19th among 28 EU Member States. Denmark ranks first and Romania ranks last. Although Slovenia ranks among countries with lower performance19, it is still above average. Figure 2: Digital Economy and Society Index 2015, EU28 (source: EC) Slovenia has a high rate of qualified population: 56% have basic digital skills, while 1.9% of Slovenians aged 20-29 years hold a STEM (Science, Technology and Mathematics) degree (7th rank among the EU member states). However, Slovenia's weakest ranking is in the Internet Connectivity field – fixed broadband connections are available only to 89 % of households. Although the take-up of fixed broadband is relatively good (71%) only 6.6% of subscriptions are to fast broadband, and only 45% of households subscribe to mobile broadband. Progress should also be made in Digital Public Services – only 29% of Slovenian internet users have returned filled-in forms to public administration20; in the field of Open Data, the country ranks 23rd. Only 5.4% of general practitioners exchange medical data electronically (36% in the EU, which makes Slovenia last among the EU Member States), while almost no general practitioners transfer prescriptions to pharmacists electronically (0.6% against 27% in the EU21). 18 DESI scores range from 0 to 1, the higher the score the better the country performance. According to DESI 2015, low-performance countries include Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovenia. 20 The data for Slovenia shows that 49 % of users who did not return an electronic form to public administration did so because they were not obliged to submit official forms. Only 3 % of users could not submit it because no suitable online service was available (Source: SORS). 21 The data on the exchange of health information and prescriptions refer to 2013 (source: SORS). 19 56 DIGITAL SLOVENIA 2020 - Development strategy for the information society until 2020