The four pie charts illustrate the main reasons for teenagers in one African country using their phones percentagewise in the years from 2016 to 2019
Social networks were the main reason why young people used their phones throughout the whole period. In 2016 it was the reason for 50% who took part in that questionare. This trend faced a slight decrease in popularity because one year later it was chosen by only 48%. In 2018 it came back on the right track and reached 51%, followed by another boost in 2019. In that year social networks reached a staggering 56%. The second most chosen reason for young people to use their phones were emails with 25% in 2016. Emails were less renowned in 2017 because only 24% of people choose them as the reason why they use their phones. Emails kept dropping in popularity because in 2018 they dropped to 20%, finally to get bypassed by other reasons in 2019 reaching 19%.
Digital cameras were the reason why 15% of young Africans from that country used phones in 2016. Its popularity has not changed year later as it stayed the same. Surprisingly this trend has changed due to the rise in popularity, digital cameras were the reason for 18% of young people in 2018 to use their phones. We end the topic of digital cameras with overcoming emails in popularity in 2019. Emails had 19% and digital cameras had 20%.
Last but not least we have phone calls with 10% popularity in 2016, followed by some rise in statistics by 3%. Unfortunately this function of the phone had not stayed on top as its popularity decreased to 11%, only to become even smaller in 2019 and becoming minority by reaching only 5% in 2019