It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One
MindShift
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Just over half of children in the United States — 53 percent — now own a smartphone by the age of 11. These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. About 1 in 5 children has a phone by age 8.
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