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4 sourced facts about screen time and device use, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Going deeper
For US kids ages 11-14, average daily screen time reaches about how many hours?
Answerabout 9 hours
Screen use tends to peak during the pre-teen and teen years, driven by phones and social media.
Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2024) en.wikipedia.org
A 2018 survey found what share of American teens ages 12-18 use a mobile device within 30 minutes of bedtime?
Answerabout 70%
Late-night device use is linked to disrupted sleep patterns among teens.
Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2018) en.wikipedia.org
Expert level
According to 2017 data, how much daily screen time did children under age 2 average?
Answerabout 42 minutes
Even very young children were already spending notable amounts of time with screens by 2017.
Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2017) en.wikipedia.org
A 2016 US survey found the median amount of screen use per hour, across the whole day, was about how many minutes?
Answerabout 3.7 minutes per hour
Averaged across an entire day, this comes out to a meaningful share of waking hours spent on screens.
Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2016) en.wikipedia.org
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