As of June 2024, 21 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years spent six to ten hours per week playing video games. Overall, respondents from this age group were also more likely than others to be heavy gamers - a total of eight percent played video games more than 20 hours in an average week. In total, weekly gaming usage was more likely among younger adults in the United States.

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 28 percent of U.S. respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 10,145 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

A January 2021 survey found that gamers in China spent the most time playing games per week, averaging about 12.39 weekly hours of gaming time. Vietnamese gamers were ranked second with about 10.16 hours of gaming time per week. The global average was 8.45 weekly hours of gaming.

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 28 percent of UK respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 4,027 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

In a survey conducted in 2023, 51 percent of casual and professional gamers in Saudi Arabia said that they spent between five and 20 hours a week playing video games. 14 percent of those surveyed said that they spend more than 30 hours a week gaming, while 11.6 percent said they spend less than two hours a week on gaming.

As of June 2024, 27 percent of adults in the United States spent one to five hours per week playing video games. A further 10 percent of respondents stated that they spent 11 to 15 hours on video gaming in an average week. Overall, 19 percent of respondents were non-gamers and did not spend any time on video games.

General video gaming use among the U.S. population increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between May and December 2020, U.S. teens aged 15 to 19 years spent an average 112.8 daily minutes on playing games and using computers for leisure, up from 73.8 minutes per day in the corresponding period of 2019. In 2023, the daily time spent on such activities among this age group decreased to 98.4 minutes per day.

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 28 percent of German respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 5,996 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 28 percent of Canadian respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 2,025 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 37 percent of Indian respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 4,029 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 29 percent of Australian respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 2,025 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

According to a study conducted in Mach 2024, at least 71 percent of adult computer gamers in the United States spent more than one hour playing games each week on all platforms. Overall, mobile gamers were most likely to spend time gaming, with 20 percent of respondents stating that they spend more than 10 hours per week playing on smartphones or tablets.

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 26 percent of South Korean respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 2,032 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

A January 2021 of global gaming markets found that 10.4 percent of gamers aged 18 to 25 years spent an average of more than 20 hours per week on gaming activities. However, gamers in that particular age group only averaged 7.97 weekly hours of gaming. In contrast, 12.6 percent of responding gamers aged 60 years and over spent more than 20 hours a week on gaming.

A January 2021 survey revealed that more than a quarter of gamers in China spent an average of 12 to 20 hours a week on gaming, with a further 17.6 percent of survey respondents spending more than 20 hours per week playing video games. Out of all the surveyed countries, 18.8 percent of gamers spent an average of seven to twelve hours week on gaming.

According to a survey of console gamers in the United States, some 11 percent of respondents stated that in general they spent more than 20 hours per week playing video games. As of June 2023, approximately 30 percent of U.S. console gamers played about one to five hours of video games per week.

According to a survey on gaming in Singapore in 2020, 19.8 percent of respondents stated that they spent about two to four hours a week playing video games. This figure was expected to increase this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Frequency of gaming

Gaming is a popular past time in Singapore, and many Singaporeans engage in playing online or video games daily. For the majority of Singaporeans, an average gaming session would last between less than an hour to three hours. However, this changed significantly with age – the majority of older gamers average only up to two hours per session. Singapore ranks among the top countries in Asia for time spent playing video games, and this has had consequences on everyday life.

Gaming in COVID-19

Too much time spent playing video games was seen by Singaporeans as being detrimental to mental health ; however, the effects could be just the opposite during the COVID-19 pandemic. Playing online games has become a popular and even healthy form of spending time during lockdowns and quarantines. Furthermore, socially interactive online games such as multiplayer games provide people with an outlet to communicate with others during a time when social interaction has been limited.

The displayed data on the number of hours smartphone gamers spend on playing video games per week shows results of the Consumer Insights Global survey conducted in the United States. As of March 2024, some 9 percent of respondents stated that in general they spend more than 20 hours per week playing video games. The survey was conducted among 10,055 respondents. Access millions of exclusive survey results with Statista Consumer Insights.

When asked about "Hours spent on playing video games per week", 17 percent of Japanese respondents answer "1 to 5 hours". This online survey was conducted in 2024, among 2,022 consumers. Looking to gain valuable insights about video gamers worldwide? Check out our

According to a survey conducted in Vietnam in 2021, approximately 22.4 percent of respondents stated that they spent between seven and 12 hours playing video games every week. On average, Vietnamese respondents spent over ten hours playing video games weekly.