The bar chart compares how the frequency of surfing the Internet everyday varied across five different age brackets in Britain over three years, starting from 2003.
Overall, individuals aging from 16 to 24 spent more time using the Internet than others over the period examined. The year 2006 witnessed the largest number of people of all ages accessing the Internet, compared to other years, except for the 16-to-24-year-old data.
The first three age groups from 16 to 54 years old experienced an upward trend. In detail, there were 80 people from 16 to 24 years old having access to the Internet in the first two years. This figure reached its peak at 100 individuals in 2005 before declining slightly to 90 people. The Internet was available to just about 50 25-to-44-year-old adults in 2003, followed by 80 people recorded after 3 years. A similar pattern was seen in the statistics for 45-to-54-year-olds spending time using the Internet, starting at 60 adults, it then rose gradually to 80 people 3 years later.
There were fewer people who were older than 55 years old surfing the network. Just 30 people from 55 to 64 used the Internet in 2003, while this statistic went up constantly to about 50 adults in the last year. Regarding who were older than 65, there was no data for the year 2003; however, 20 people spent time online everyday in 2006.