The bar charts elucidate a comparative analysis of Internet-using reasons, categorized into age cohorts and measured in percentages across Australia, during the years 2010 and 2011.
Overall, whilst social media recorded transparent age disparities in usage rates, favoring the younger demographics, the remaining categories exhibited higher proportions by older users. Notably, emailings registered the most major Internet application throughout the entire period.
Regarding age distribution in each purpose, most Australian residents aged 18-25 utilized the Internet for social media, followed by roughly 80% and 70% in engagement of the 26-40 and 40-60 a ge ranges, in sequence. As can be observed, these figures remarkably exceeded that of people aged 60-65 and over 65, which both constituted under 40%.
Turning payin gs bills online and email ings, which underwent mirrored trajectories in Internet usage, t he age ranges of citizens under 40 years old revealed approximately 60% of Internet users, marginally lower than that of the over-40-year-old counterparts, which all plateaued between 70% and 80%.
Concerning the average statistics for three Internet-using activities, emailings ranked first at over 70% o f Australians engaging, outnumbering the prevalence of online bill payments and social media, which respectively attained moderately more than 50% and 40% over the consecutive years.