A roundup of the latest screen time statistics; in other words, how much time do people spend on search, social media and devices.
Time spent on communication platforms
- 17 hours per month spent on social networks in Italy 1
- 11 hours per month spent on instant chat in Italy
- 6 hours per month spent on video and movie consumption in Italy
- 2 hours and 40 minutes spent sending and receiving email in Italy
- 2.03 hours spent on search in Italy
Time Spent on Media
- 3 hours and 15 minutes is the average time US adults spend on their mobile devices. 2
- 4 hours, 12 minutes per day is average time spent on mobile devices in 2021
- 50 minutes per day is average time spent on desktop devices in 2021
- 4 hours per day is average time spent on television in 2021
- 1 hour and 39 minutes is average time spent listening to radio in 2021
Kids – Time Spent on Screen
- 6 hours a day is how much kids aged 8-10 spend in front of a screen in the US. 3
- 9 hours a day is how much kids aged 11-14 spend in front of a screen in the US.
- 7.5 hours a day is how much kids aged 15-18 spend in front of a screen in the US.
Time Spent on Social Media (in Italy)
- 29 minutes is average time spent per day on Instagram 4
- 33 minutes is average time spent per day on Facebook
- 31 minutes is average time spent per day on Twitter
- 31 minutes is average time spent per day on TikTok
- 28 minutes is average time spent per day on Snapchat
Other Statistics
- 51.8% of Americans use social media apps because of boredom. 5
- 50.3% of Americans associate social media screen time as “not getting work done” 5
- 8 hours and 52 minutes is the average weekly Netflix consumption. 6
- 1777 seconds or 29 minutes and 37 seconds is the average time spent per user per visit on YouTube.com in March 2021 7
- Over 2 million hours spent watching 4 streaming episodes of politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitch 8
Data sources
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/594259/italy-monthly-time-spent-on-top-15-website-categories/
- https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-media-consumption-has-changed-in-2021/
- www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/multimedia/infographics/getmoving.html
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/594259/italy-monthly-time-spent-on-top-15-website-categories/
- https://simpletexting.com/screen-time-survey/
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/979048/netflix-weekly-consumption-time-united-kingdom-uk/
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1257254/youtubecom-time-spent-per-visit/
- https://sullygnome.com/channel/aoc/365