The bar chart compares the proportions of daily Internet users across five distinct age brackets in the UK between 2003 and 2006.
Overall, the Internet became more prevalent across all of these age groups throughout the period surveyed. While the figure for elderly people over 65 established itself as the smallest Internet users group, the youth aged 16 to 24 incessantly accounted for the highest proportion of users over the four-year period.
Examining the three dominant age groups, the 16- to 24-year-old demographic represented 80% of online users in the UK in 2003, which remained unchanged in the subsequent year before peaking at 100% in 2005, then descending to roughly 90% by the end of the period shown. Meanwhile, during the given time period, the trend and the proportion of Internet users aged 25 to 44 were almost identical to that of 45- to 54-year-old age group, with a gradual, yet plateaued, ascent in both groups, escalating from approximately 50% and 60% in 2003, respectively, to 80% in both categories after three years.
As for the two remaining minor-proportion age brackets, people aged 55 to 64 accounted for only 30% of Internet users in 2003, before fluctuating slightly, after which this figure surged to its peak at around 50%, nearly doubling their initial percentage. Whereas, the over-65 group emerged as a new user group in 2004 and constantly represented the lowest share among all Internet user cohorts, starting at 18% in 2004 and reaching 20% of the total online users’ proportion by the final year of the period.