Gen Z internet activities Great Britain 2020

This statistic shows activities carried out online by individuals aged 16-24 in Great Britain as of 2020. A majority at 97 percent reported using the internet for social networking, while 94 percent said they sent and received emails online.

Activities performed online by Generation Z in Great Britain in 2020

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Social networking	97%
Using instant messaging services	92%
Listening to/downloading music	93%
Sending/receiving emails	94%
Internet banking	90%
Finding information about goods and services	84%
Reading online news, newspapers or magazines	78%
Making video or voice calls over the internet	70%
Uploading content created by you to a website to be shared	56%
Selling goods or services over the internet	22%
Watching video content from services such as YouTube	95%

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Release date

August 2020

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

January - February 2020

Number of respondents

2,010**

Age group

16-24 years

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

* The source indicates: "The source of this information is the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OLS). The OLS is a multi-purpose survey developed by ONS for use by government departments, other public bodies, charities, academics and the media. It provides a fast, cost effective and reliable way of obtaining information on topics too brief to warrant their own survey."

** The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey is carried out by interviewing a nationally representative sample of households in Great Britain. About 2,010 households are sampled each month and estimates are subject to sampling variability, as are those from all sample surveys.

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