Indians Spent One-Third of Daily Waking Hours on Mobile Phones in 2021: App Annie Report

Are we becoming more dependent on mobile phones? According to State of Mobile Report published by a mobile app data and analytics platform App Annie, that might be the case.

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In 2021, Indians spent a staggering 4.8 hours a day on mobile phones. The data was collated by considering the statistics from the top 10 mobile markets worldwide. The users spent 3.8 trillion hours on various mobile devices last year. Considering the statistics in India, mobile phone users spent nearly an average of 4.7 hours on mobile daily in 2021. In 2019, this was 3.7 hours per day, and in 2020, the data was 4.5 hours per day. We can easily attribute the increase of screen time in 2020 and 2021 to the pandemic when most people were constraint to their homes. Some nations such as Brazil, South Korea and Indonesia reported more than 5 hours per day on mobile apps last year.

India ranks second in terms of app downloads

The publishers worldwide released 2 million new apps and games in 2021, taking the total count of apps and games released on iOS and Google Play Store to over 21 million. Google Play Store accounts for 77% of the apps and game released in 2021. Across both platforms, games accounted for 15% of all new releases. 230 billion new app downloads were recorded in terms of downloads, which is a 5% y-o-y increase. Further bifurcation reveals that more than 4,35,000 apps were downloaded per minute in 2021. India ranked second in terms of hours spent on mobile and app downloads.