UK Children active on social media 2022, by age
As of 2022, 96 percent of teenagers aged 17 years in the United Kingdom had a social media profile, while 95 percent of teens aged 16 years owned a profile. Over one in ten children aged three years had a social media profile, and similar figures were seen for those aged four and five years of age. The majority of social media platforms do not allow users under the age of 13 to have a profile on their services.