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4 sourced facts about screen time and smartphone use, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.

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The basics

As of 2024, how many hours a day do kids aged 8–10 spend on screens on average, in the U.S.?

Answer6 hours/day

That's on top of screen time from school-related device use in many cases.

Source: Wikipedia (Screen time) (2024) en.wikipedia.org

As of 2020, what share of the entire world's population were smartphone users?

Answer75.05%

That share has kept climbing as smartphones have become cheaper and more widely available.

Source: Wikipedia (Smartphone) (2020) en.wikipedia.org

Going deeper

In 2019 alone, about how many smartphone units were shipped worldwide?

Answer1.54 billion units

That's on top of the more than a billion smartphones that have been sold globally every year since 2014.

Source: Wikipedia (Smartphone) (2019) en.wikipedia.org

Expert level

In 2013, the year smartphone shipments first topped 1 billion units, what share of the mobile phone market did smartphones hold?

Answer55% market share

That was up from a 42% share of the mobile phone market just a year earlier, in 2012.

Source: Wikipedia (Smartphone) (2013) en.wikipedia.org

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