The graph compares the proportions of adults, dividing into five distinct age groups, who had daily access to the Internet during the periods from 2003 to 2006.
In general, all given age cohorts witnessed an increasing trend with the highest was the percentage of the age 16-24, contradicting that age category, people over 65 always stayed at the lowest..
Concerning the most active groups, allocating 80% in the beginning then staying around at that figure before surging to about 89% by 2005 and receding to 85% in the next year. This was followed by the 25-44 age bracket at approximately 71% in 2003, constantly rising to 81% by the end of the surveyed time frame. As for people at 45-54 years old, roughly 55% of those often used the Internet in the first year and after rising and declining to around 69% and 60% respectively in 2004 and 2005, it soared to nearly 70% by 2006.
Regarding the other cohorts, only about 32% of age 55-64 approached the Internet at the commencing year of the bar chart, after three years, consistently climbing to roughly 55% by 2006. The lowest group was people of 65+ years old when standing at approximately 5% prior to a significant incline at about 18% and still accounting for that number at the last year after slightly growing to 20% in 2005.
