An increase from 2019, Americans spent a third of their time using mobile devices in 2021

With the lockdown measures implemented in many countries of the world over the past year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, everyone had plenty of time to use their favorite electronic devices.

According to the study conducted by the consulting company “Appannie”, the average time spent by the average person using mobile devices in the 10 largest markets in the world amounted to 4.8 hours per day during the past year, an increase of 30% over the period in 2019 before the outbreak of the pandemic. .

At the same time, the company's report - entitled "The State of Mobile Devices 2022" - showed the growth of consumer spending on mobile games in the United States during the past year to $ 27.3 billion.

The website CNET.com, which specializes in technology issues, indicated that at a time when most countries of the world imposed restrictions on social communication in real life during the past year, sales of dating and dating applications increased in the world to $ 4.2 billion, an increase of percentage 52% from pre-pandemic levels.

Thanks to the strong popularity of the Chinese social networking application Tik Tok, the share of social networking applications and platforms in the world has increased the total time spent by users with mobile devices to 7 out of every 10 minutes.

The total number of hours users spent using mobile devices in the world during the past year was about 3.8 trillion hours, and they downloaded about 230 billion copies of different applications and spent about $170 billion on them, an increase of nearly 20% over the previous year.

Last year, the average American spent 4.1 hours of their day using mobile devices, compared to 3.1 hours watching television.