As of March 2025, 26 percent of video gamers in the United States were aged 30 to 39 years, making this age group the biggest gamer demographic. Additionally, 24 percent of U.S. gaming audiences were aged 20 to 29 years.

A September to November 2024 survey of UK adults aged 16 years and older found that 85 percent of respondents aged between 16 and 24 years played video games, down from a 92 percent gaming penetration among the same age group in 2020. Overall, gaming uptake increased in 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Video games industry in the UK In 2023, consumers in the United Kingdom spent over 3.16 billion British pounds on digital and online games. In regard to the annual contribution of the video games industry to the UK Gross Domestic Product, it amounted to 3.68 billion British pounds in 2023. Mobile games The popularity of mobile gaming increased over the last decade and overtook games consoles and TV for the first time in 2014. As of 2024, approximately 34 percent of UK adults reported playing games on their mobile phone, the highest rate ever reported. The most downloaded gaming apps in the UK include puzzle and casual titles such as Supermarket Simulator and Block Blast.

In 2025, 14 percent of video gamers in Germany were aged 10 to 19. Perhaps surprisingly, however, the group with the highest share of players was the 60 years and older category, accounting for 20 percent of total gaming audiences.

In a world where people are constantly on the move and seeking new forms of entertainment to make their journeys go faster, video gaming is bigger than ever among children as well as adults. In a 2019 survey, ** percent of internet users who identified as casual gamers were aged between 23 and 36.

As of June 2024, around ** percent of adult gamers in France were aged between 30 and 39 years, and a further ** percent of French gamers were aged 40 to 49 years. In contrast, only about ** percent of Spanish gamers were aged between 30 and 39 years.

A March 2024 survey found that ** percent of adults in the United States played video games on the web or through a browser at least once per week. Weekly browser gaming was highest among respondents aged 35 to 54 years, with ** percent of respondents in this age group confirming that they did so.

In a survey of online gaming by Rakuten Insight in January 2025, ** percent of Indonesian respondents who were aged between 16 and 24 years old stated that they played online games. The same survey found that a large portion of Indonesian gamers played online games daily.

This statistic illustrates the smartphone video game players in the United States. As of **************, * percent of 18 - 19 year old consumers do so in the U.S. This is according to exclusive results from the Consumer Insights Global survey which shows that ** percent of 20 - 29 year old customers also fall into this category.Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than ********* interviews.

As per the results of January 2025 survey on online gaming in India by Rakuten Insight, about ** percent of respondents between 16 and 24 years of age played online games. In comparison, only ** percent above the age of 55 years played online games in the surveyed time period.

A March 2024 survey found that ** percent of adults in the United States played video games on a computer at least once per week. Weekly PC gaming was highest among respondents aged 35 to 54 years, and lowest among those aged 55 years and above.

Mobile games are no longer the entertainment just limited for young people in China. In October 2024, over a ***** of the mobile gamers were older than 40 years old in the country. However, they spent less time and less money on mobile games compared to younger players.

A survey conducted in the third quarter of 2024 found that over 92 percent of female internet users aged 16 to 24 years worldwide played video games on any kind of device. During the survey period, 93 percent of male respondents in the same age group stated that they played video games. Worldwide, over 83 percent of internet users were gamers.

As of March 2025, ** percent of adult video gamers in Italy were aged between 20 and 29 years. Gamers aged 40 to 49 and 50 to 59 accounted for a ******* of Italian gaming audiences each. Overall, gaming penetration in Italy is lower than the global average.

In 2022, about ** percent of highly engaged habitual gamers (who played video games as their primary source of entertainment) in the United States were ****. Only ** percent of those who identified as occasional gamers were male. Furthermore, over half of habitual U.S. gamers were aged 18 to 34 years whereas only ** percent of occasional gamers belonged to this age group.

Long gone are the days that video gaming was known exclusively as a hobby for teenage boys - it is now enjoyed by young and old alike and by both genders. In fact, in 2020, around ** percent of gamers worldwide were women between the ages of ** and **.

The appeal of video games has expanded to older age groups in China. As of the first half of 2019, the gamers aged above 46 years accounted for about *** percent of the video players in the country. The largest gaming consumer group were those aged between 18 and 25 years.

A March 2024 survey found that 55 percent of adults in the United States played video games on a smartphone or tablet at least once per week. Weekly mobile gaming was highest among respondents aged 18 to 34 years, followed by those with aged between 35 to 54.

A 2023 survey in Spain found that around 51 percent of the country's video game players were men, while 49 percent were women. Those aged between 25 to 34 years old were the most common group, as 11 percent of those inside this group were men and 11 percent were women, accounting for around 22 percent of the total gaming audiences altogether.

A March 2024 survey found that 28 percent of adults in the United States played video games on a console at least once per week. Weekly console gaming was highest among respondents aged 35 to 54 years, with more than four in ten of respondents in this age group confirming that they did so.

According to a survey by Rakuten Insight in January 2025, around ** percent of Thai respondents aged between 16 to 24 years stated that they played online games. The survey also explored the frequency of online gaming and it revealed that almost half of the Thai respondents played online games daily.