The bar chart illustrates the percentage of Internet usage in Taiwan by age group from 1998 to 2000.
Overall, there were upward and downward trends for these figures over the period, Another noticeable point is that 16-30 years old was the age which had the highest proportion of Internet usage in Taiwan.
As can be seen from the chart, the age group of 16-30 years accounted for the highest figure in 1998, followed by a gradual decrease of approximately 8% in the next two years. Likewise, the figure for people between 31 and 50 years old started at 41% in 1998. In the phase of 1999 to 2000, this figure experienced a slight decline to 39% and 37% respectively.
By contrast, the age group of children under 15 rocketed by 6% in 1999, from 2% to 8%, and then there was a minimal growth of 1% over the next year. Equally, there was a dramatic climb of 4% in the figure of people over 50 years old from 1998 to 1999. This just increased by a mere 1 % at the end.