Smartphone addiction across the world
We are currently tracking smartphone addiction
across 60, 000 participants from 195 countries.
In the 41 countries with the largest samples,
estimated smartphone addiction at age 25
ranged from
28
in the Czech Republic to
34
in the Philippines
(Olson et al., 2023).
Europe had the lowest smartphone addiction scores
while Southeast Asia had the highest.
Total scores can range from
10
to
60.
Breakdown by country
Scores show the predicted smartphone addiction score at age 25 across sexes. The raw dataset is also available.
| Country | Score | Participants |
| Philippines | 34.47 | 303 |
| Malaysia | 34.05 | 475 |
| Bangladesh | 33.69 | 157 |
| Indonesia | 33.35 | 156 |
| Pakistan | 32.82 | 152 |
| Singapore | 32.78 | 228 |
| Argentina | 32.62 | 135 |
| India | 32.38 | 1, 481 |
| Ireland | 32.23 | 228 |
| United Kingdom | 31.26 | 2, 800 |
| Spain | 31.24 | 431 |
| Israel | 31.14 | 111 |
| Brazil | 31.10 | 472 |
| Romania | 31.07 | 315 |
| Japan | 31.03 | 208 |
| Australia | 30.96 | 1, 241 |
| Mexico | 30.91 | 227 |
| Russia | 30.81 | 642 |
| Canada | 30.56 | 2, 818 |
| Turkey | 30.47 | 153 |
| Croatia | 30.29 | 100 |
| Ukraine | 30.26 | 254 |
| New Zealand | 30.05 | 221 |
| Sweden | 30.04 | 254 |
| United States | 29.97 | 28, 564 |
| South Africa | 29.74 | 274 |
| Slovakia | 29.54 | 134 |
| Belgium | 29.54 | 221 |
| Poland | 29.40 | 292 |
| Germany | 28.96 | 1, 402 |
| Austria | 28.91 | 134 |
| Greece | 28.90 | 114 |
| Denmark | 28.90 | 219 |
| Italy | 28.87 | 1, 449 |
| Netherlands | 28.84 | 340 |
| France | 28.57 | 702 |
| Hungary | 28.50 | 228 |
| Finland | 28.18 | 158 |
| Portugal | 28.07 | 143 |
| Switzerland | 27.88 | 200 |
| Czech Republic | 27.66 | 143 |