A January 2021 survey of global gaming audiences found that 10.9 percent of female and 11.9 percent of male gamers played more than 20 hours of video games a week. In total, the average time spent on gaming per week amounted to 8.45 hours.
Average weekly time spent playing video games worldwide as of January 2021, by gender
This survey was fielded by a third-party company with consumer panels in China, Germany, India, Indonesia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. 500 responses were collected from each country for a total of 4,000 global responses. Survey responses were collected between January 5 and January 12, 2021.
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Limelight Networks. (March 16, 2021). Average weekly time spent playing video games worldwide as of January 2021, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/246706/weekly-gaming-time-worldwide-gender/
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