The average time spent daily on a phone, not counting talking on the phone, has increased in recent years, reaching a total of * hours and ** minutes as of April 2022. This figure was expected to reach around * hours and ** minutes by 2024.

This statistic illustrates the share of Americans owning a smartphone in the U.S.. As of September 2024, 95 percent of 18 - 29 year old consumers do so in the U.S. This is according to exclusive results from the Consumer Insights Global survey which shows that 95 percent of 30 - 49 year old customers also fall into this category.Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than 2,000,000 interviews.

The global number of smartphone users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.8 billion users (+42.62 percent). After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the smartphone user base is estimated to reach 6.1 billion users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of smartphone users of was continuously increasing over the past years.Smartphone users here are limited to internet users of any age using a smartphone. The shown figures have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of smartphone users in countries like the Americas and Asia.

Percentage of smartphone users by selected smartphone use habits in a typical day.

The number of smartphone users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 17.4 million users (+5.61 percent). After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the smartphone user base is estimated to reach 327.54 million users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of smartphone users of was continuously increasing over the past years.Smartphone users here are limited to internet users of any age using a smartphone. The shown figures have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of smartphone users in countries like Mexico and Canada.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User data was reported at 141,644.130 Person th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 138,319.640 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User data is updated yearly, averaging 139,981.885 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 141,644.130 Person th in 2017 and a record low of 138,319.640 Person th in 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.TB010: Number of Cell Phone User: by Sex and Age.

The statistic shows the total number of mobile phone users worldwide from 2015 to 2020. In 2019 the number of mobile phone users is forecast to reach **** billion. Mobile phone users worldwide - additional information The number of mobile phone users in the world is expected to pass the **** billion mark by 2019. In 2016, an estimated **** percent of the population worldwide already owned a mobile phone. The mobile phone penetration is forecasted to continue to grow, rounding up to ** percent by 2019. China was predicted to have just over *** billion mobile connections in 2017, while India was forecast to reach over *** billion. By 2019, China is expected to reach almost *** billion mobile connections and India almost *** billion. Most of the mobile market growth can be attributed to the increasing popularity of smartphones. By 2014, around ** percent of all mobile users were smartphone users. By 2018, this number is expected to reach over ** percent. The number of smartphone users worldwide is expected to grow by one billion in a time span of five years, which means the number of smartphone users in the world is expected to reach *** billion by 2019. Samsung and Apple are leading smartphone vendors, with about ** percent of the market share each.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Age 25 to 29 Years data was reported at 13,433.688 Person th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 13,492.226 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Age 25 to 29 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 13,462.957 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13,492.226 Person th in 2016 and a record low of 13,433.688 Person th in 2017. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Age 25 to 29 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB010: Number of Cell Phone User: by Sex and Age.

No of Cell Phone User: Professional Science & Arts data was reported at 9,490.084 Person th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 9,251.031 Person th for 2016. No of Cell Phone User: Professional Science & Arts data is updated yearly, averaging 9,370.558 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,490.084 Person th in 2017 and a record low of 9,251.031 Person th in 2016. No of Cell Phone User: Professional Science & Arts data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB013: Number of Cell Phone User: by Occupation.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: North: Age 35 to 39 Years data was reported at 1,058.426 Person th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,059.284 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: North: Age 35 to 39 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 1,058.855 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,059.284 Person th in 2016 and a record low of 1,058.426 Person th in 2017. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: North: Age 35 to 39 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB011: Number of Cell Phone User: by Region.

No of Cell Phone User: Southeast: Manager data was reported at 2,253.483 Person th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,285.604 Person th for 2016. No of Cell Phone User: Southeast: Manager data is updated yearly, averaging 2,269.543 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,285.604 Person th in 2016 and a record low of 2,253.483 Person th in 2017. No of Cell Phone User: Southeast: Manager data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB013: Number of Cell Phone User: by Occupation.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Male: Age 50 to 54 Years data was reported at 5,108.306 Person th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5,118.798 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Male: Age 50 to 54 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 5,113.552 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,118.798 Person th in 2016 and a record low of 5,108.306 Person th in 2017. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Male: Age 50 to 54 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB010: Number of Cell Phone User: by Sex and Age.

This dataset has been artificially generated to mimic real-world user interactions within a mobile application. It contains 100,000 rows of data, each row of which represents a single event or action performed by a synthetic user. The dataset was designed to capture many of the attributes commonly tracked by app analytics platforms, such as device details, network information, user demographics, session data, and event-level interactions.

Key Features Included

User & Session Metadata

User ID: A unique integer identifier for each synthetic user. Session ID: Randomly generated session identifiers (e.g., S-123456), capturing the concept of user sessions. IP Address: Fake IP addresses generated via Faker to simulate different network origins. Timestamp: Randomized timestamps (within the last 30 days) indicating when each interaction occurred. Session Duration: An approximate measure (in seconds) of how long a user remained active. Device & Technical Details

Device OS & OS Version: Simulated operating systems (Android/iOS) with plausible version numbers. Device Model: Common phone models (e.g., “Samsung Galaxy S22,” “iPhone 14 Pro,” etc.). Screen Resolution: Typical screen resolutions found in smartphones (e.g., “1080x1920”). Network Type: Indicates whether the user was on Wi-Fi, 5G, 4G, or 3G. Location & Locale

Location Country & City: Random global locations generated using Faker. App Language: Represents the user’s app language setting (e.g., “en,” “es,” “fr,” etc.). User Properties

Battery Level: The phone’s battery level as a percentage (0–100). Memory Usage (MB): Approximate memory consumption at the time of the event. Subscription Status: Boolean flag indicating if the user is subscribed to a premium service. User Age: Random integer ranging from teenagers to seniors (13–80). Phone Number: Fake phone numbers generated via Faker. Push Enabled: Boolean flag indicating if the user has push notifications turned on. Event-Level Interactions

Event Type: The action taken by the user (e.g., “click,” “view,” “scroll,” “like,” “share,” etc.). Event Target: The UI element or screen component interacted with (e.g., “home_page_banner,” “search_bar,” “notification_popup”). Event Value: A numeric field indicating additional context for the event (e.g., intensity, count, rating). App Version: Simulated version identifier for the mobile application (e.g., “4.2.8”). Data Quality & “Noise” To better approximate real-world data, 1% of all fields have been intentionally “corrupted” or altered:

Typos and Misspellings: Random single-character edits, e.g., “Andro1d” instead of “Android.” Missing Values: Some cells might be blank (None) to reflect dropped or unrecorded data. Random String Injections: Occasional random alphanumeric strings inserted where they don’t belong. These intentional discrepancies can help data scientists practice data cleaning, outlier detection, and data wrangling techniques.

Usage & Applications

Data Cleaning & Preprocessing: Ideal for practicing how to handle missing values, inconsistent data, and noise in a realistic scenario. Analytics & Visualization: Demonstrate user interaction funnels, session durations, usage by device/OS, etc. Machine Learning & Modeling: Suitable for building classification or clustering models (e.g., user segmentation, event classification). Simulation for Feature Engineering: Experiment with deriving new features (e.g., session frequency, average battery drain, etc.).

Important Notes & Disclaimer

Synthetic Data: All entries (users, device info, IPs, phone numbers, etc.) are artificially generated and do not correspond to real individuals. Privacy & Compliance: Since no real personal data is present, there are no direct privacy concerns. However, always handle synthetic data ethically.

The statistic shows the share of the population in the United States that uses a smartphone in the United States from 2018 to 2025. In 2025, 87.08 percent of the population in the United States is forecast to use a smartphone.

Smartphone user penetration - additional information
A smartphone can be defined as a mobile device that uses an identifiable operating system and has a more advanced technological capability than a basic mobile phone. The number of U.S mobile users who have a smartphone is set to more than triple between 2011 and 2017 to almost 80 percent of all mobile users. This means that the number of overall smartphone users is forecast to top 200 million by 2017.

The smartphone penetration rate of mobile users is similarly high in the United Kingdom, with over 80 percent expected to own a smart device by 2017. However the smartphone market is set to grow at a slower rate in China with just under half of mobile users forecast to own a smartphone in 2017. The percentage is even lower in India where 32 percent of mobile phone users are predicted to use a smartphone by 2017.

Android phones and iPhones remain the most popular choice for smartphones with the two respective Operating Systems holding of 90 percent of the market sales in the U.S. in 2013. This trend looks set to continue with two new competing smartphones on the market, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Android) and the iPhone 6 (iOS), both unveiled in 2014.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: Male: 4 to 7 Years data was reported at 15,501.191 Person th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 14,737.676 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: Male: 4 to 7 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 15,119.433 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15,501.191 Person th in 2017 and a record low of 14,737.676 Person th in 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: Male: 4 to 7 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB012: Number of Cell Phone User: by Years of Studies.

The population share with mobile internet access in North America was forecast to increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 2.9 percentage points. This overall increase does not happen continuously, notably not in 2028 and 2029. The mobile internet penetration is estimated to amount to 84.21 percent in 2029. Notably, the population share with mobile internet access of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population having access to the internet via a mobile broadband connection.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the population share with mobile internet access in countries like Caribbean and Europe.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: Northeast: 11 to 14 Years data was reported at 12,100.184 Person th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 11,518.033 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: Northeast: 11 to 14 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 11,809.108 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12,100.184 Person th in 2017 and a record low of 11,518.033 Person th in 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: Northeast: 11 to 14 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB012: Number of Cell Phone User: by Years of Studies.

This statistic shows the number of smartphone users in the U.S. from 2009 to 2040. For 2022, the number of smartphone users in the United States is estimated to reach 307 million.

Smartphone users - additional information

Advances in telecommunication technology have been significant in recent years. These advances have led to a level of connectivity never seen before. The number of smartphone users in the US has risen steadily over the last several years and forecasts estimate that smartphone penetration in North America will also continue to rise steadily into the future. The United States is one of the leading countries in the world with respect to adoption of smartphone technology.

In America the most popular smartphone brands are Samsung and Apple, while the most popular smartphone operating systems / platforms with respect to market share are none other than Google Android and Apple’s own operating system, iOS. Other operating systems, such as Symbian, Blackberry OS, Bada and Windows have struggled to maintain a foothold in the market as iOS and Android clearly dominate the field.

The first official smartphones came onto the market in the early 1990s. Initially a smartphone was classified by its ability to offer features like e-mail capability, internet access, QUERTY keyboards, personal digital assistant functions and perhaps a built-in camera. As of today, smartphones have progressed even more and we typically classify smartphones as having a high definition touchscreen, various apps, navigation tools and high-speed internet on the go. More recently sales of smartphones have even exceeded that of traditional feature phones as smartphone usage has continued to rise.

Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: South: Without Education & Less Than 1 Year data was reported at 555.309 Person th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 715.269 Person th for 2016. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: South: Without Education & Less Than 1 Year data is updated yearly, averaging 635.289 Person th from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 715.269 Person th in 2016 and a record low of 555.309 Person th in 2017. Brazil Number of Cell Phone User: Year of Studies: South: Without Education & Less Than 1 Year data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Transport and Telecommunication Sector – Table BR.TB012: Number of Cell Phone User: by Years of Studies.

In 2021, the number of mobile users worldwide stood at 7.1 billion, with forecasts suggesting this is likely to rise to 7.26 billion by 2022. In 2025, the number of mobile users worldwide is projected to reach 7.49 billion.