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Daily Passive Social Media Use: 15-Year-Olds (2022)

This chart shows the distribution of time spent on passive social media activities, such as scrolling through feeds or browsing content, by 15-year-olds on a typical weekday. The data reveal that passive engagement is a near-universal habit for this demographic, with only 6% of adolescents reporting no usage at all. The majority of students fall into the moderate-to-heavy usage categories, with 39% spending between one and three hours daily on these platforms. 37% of 15-year-olds spend more than three hours per day engaged in passive scrolling. 94% of 15-year-olds are daily participants in passive digital consumption.

Source: Social media usage and adolescents’ mental health in the EU, JRC, 2025
Topic: Usage Patterns
Reference year: 2022
Geographical scope: European Union
Method: 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data
Unit of measurement: Percent (%)
Link to original document: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu

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