Band 7+: The chart shows the results of surveys in one African country asking teenagers the main reasons for using their phones between 2016 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts demonstrate the percentages of reasons for using phones of the youths in African country from 2016 to 2019.

Overall, social networks still reigned supreme, approximately balanced to the total of the others, while the number of calls recorded a downward trend.

Upward trending was recorded in social networking and digital camera applications. In 2016, 50% of the whole time that teenagers in an African country spent most was for these apps, and this figure rose to 56% just 4 years later. Camera apps also had a space for themselves. There was a slight increase in the total time that African teenagers used digital cameras, which rose by 5% to 20% in 2019.

At the same time, emails became such familiar that teenagers tend to check on their phones. However, from accounting for 25% of the whole using time in 2016, this proportion was decreased slightly to 24% and 20% in the next 2 years respectively before falling to 19% in 2019. Phone calls underwent a downward trend in development during the 4 year period. Although it made up for 10% of using in 2018 and rose to 13% in the next year, it lost dramatically two-third of its value and back to 5% in 2019.