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The Countries Most Addicted To Screen Time, Mapped

Jared Russo
Jared Russo
The Countries Most Addicted To Screen Time, Mapped
You'll never guess which country is the most obsessed with spending time online, just glued to their phones and desktops. The internet is addicting.
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The most significant thing to happen to the human race this millennium (so far) has been the proliferation and explosion of the internet, particularly through smart phones. Being glued to devices that are small computers with screens bigger than most hands is how many people interact with the world, work at their jobs, order food, meet their loved ones and manage their finances.

But who is the most addicted to their screens? And is that mostly just scrolling through TikTok?

Smartick gathered data from DataReportal.com on digital behavior to put together maps showing who's the most online, and, to a lesser extent, the most online.


Key Findings:

  • South Africa spends the most time on desktop and mobile, averaging nearly 10 hours a day per internet user. Brazil, Philippines, Argentina and Colombia also average more than nine hours a day.

  • South Africa also wins the award for most internet usage via a computer, with almost 4.5 hours per day. Russia, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia were also quite close the four hour mark.

  • The Philippines spends the most time on their phones, averaging more than 5.5 hours per day, per user, followed closely by Brazil, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia.


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Via Smartick.

Comments

  1. Jeff Light 3 months ago

    I don't know what the methodology for this study was, but I lived in Japan for years and I can assure you that it's massively flawed. Perhaps it's the language they collected data in, or it's a misinterpretation of the question, but Japanese people spend all day at work in front of screens, then all the train ride home looking at phones. Then if you count TV screens, that's what they do AT home. Housewives and teens are almost always on their phones, and even rural, depopulated areas have high phone usage. They literally had smartphones and QR codes in wide use before anyone else. This study definitely needs to dig deeper.

  2. Goldie Caulfield 3 months ago

    The Scam Calls come from the country's with the most on screen time.

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