Turkey and Ukraine are the frontrunners when it comes to the number of downloads – approximately half of their population has installed an eID app on their phone. The two EU candidate countries are followed by Poland, where a quarter of the nation has downloaded an eID app. In countries such as Sweden or Norway, digital identity is almost entirely integrated in banking and banks are reluctant to release usage data. Countries with fewer than five million adults have an average usage rate of 14.3 percent, which is nearly double that of large countries. The conclusion is that smaller-scale eID projects seem to build their service ecosystem faster, drawing in more users