The given pie charts illustrate the percentage breakdown of teenagers’ purposes for using smartphones by category in an African nation in four consecutive years from 2016.
Overall, using phones for social networks remained the most popular cause while phone calls accounted for the least portion in both years surveyed.
Looking at the pie charts, half of the survey participants used smartphones for social networks in 2016. However, this figure experienced a slight decrease to 48% in 2017, before going up to 51% in 2018 and 56% in 2019 respectively. Meanwhile, the percentage of young people using their phones for digital cameras remained stable at 15% from 2016 to 2017 but this proportion increased moderately by 3% in 2018 and continued to rise to 20% in 2019.
In terms of the remaining categories, although in 2016, correspondence was the secondary reason for adolescents to use phones, making up about 25%, this figure decreased over the period shown and hit the lowest point of 19% in 2019. Likewise, comprising 10% in 2016, the percentage of survey takers using phones for calling halved to 5% in the years later.