One of the functions of the iPhone allows us to see how many hours a day we spend in different applications. If you’ve tried it before and wondered if your consumption is the same as other people’s, a recent study has revealed the answer, and it may surprise you.

Research conducted by Electronics Hub, average user time from 45 countries facing devices screen such as smartphones, tablets and computers, compared to your sleep hours. To do this, they analyzed information provided by various sources, including Semrush andBenzerWeb.

Are you a screen addict?

According to research from the Journal of 1843, the average person stays awake between 16.5 and 17.5 hours a day, excluding sleep. But when it comes to screen time, Research shows that there are people who spend 40% of their day, ie 6 hours and 37 minutes, in front of a computer or mobile device.

The results shed light on consumption trends in countries on various continents. In this list, Spain doesn’t even appear in the first place. In the country, users spend only 35% of their day in front of smartphone screens, keeping the average for most European countries.

According to the report, In South Africa, they spend almost three-fifths (58.2%) of their day in front of a screen., most of any nation. In the country, they are not scrupulous about their social networking tricks, as they spend 22.5% of their day on such apps.

in Asia, Filipinos are the most avid mobile users with the highest digital addiction rate on the continent at 29%.. According to market data from Newzoo, the Philippines has approximately 69 million smartphone users, one of the largest in the world.

During In Japan, despite its technological culture, citizens have the lowest electronic device usage rates in the world.They spent only 21.7% of their time staring at screens. In 2020, Kagawa Prefecture became the first Japanese territory to pass a regulation that legally limits screen time to address the growing addiction to video games.

In the major countries of South America, more than half of their day is spent in front of a screen. Country with the most time recorded on devices is Brazil, awake 56.6% of the time. This exceeds the percentage registered in Argentina (53.8%), Colombia (53.2%) and Chile (51.6%).

In these countries, Young people spend more time in front of the screen. According to a study by the Brazilian journal Jornal de Pediatria, 70% of young people between the ages of 10 and 19 spend more than two hours a day in front of electronic devices.

Computers and video games

The report also evaluated the time spent in front of the computer and the results. South Africa, Russia, and Colombia have the highest screen time ratios for PC. South Africans (26.7%) spend their time in front of the computer, followed by Russians who spend 25.9% of their days in front of the computer. Colombia is the largest representative of Latin America with 24.7% screen time.

Finally, the report highlighted the countries with the most video game users. Saudi Arabia at 11.5% and Thailand at 10.3% have the highest screen time rates for video games in the world.. Saudi Arabia has embraced gaming and aims to be a hub for esports, and Thailand leads one of the largest video game markets in Asia with 250 million users.