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On average, US kids ages 8-10 spend about how many hours a day on screens, per 2024 data?

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no more than 5 hours

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends kids ages 5-18 get no more than how many hours of daily screen time?

This guideline aims to balance screen use with sleep, activity and other parts of a child's day.

Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2016) en.wikipedia.org

about 42 minutes

According to 2017 data, how much daily screen time did children under age 2 average?

Even very young children were already spending notable amounts of time with screens by 2017.

Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2017) en.wikipedia.org

about 3.7 minutes per hour

A 2016 US survey found the median amount of screen use per hour, across the whole day, was about how many minutes?

Averaged across an entire day, this comes out to a meaningful share of waking hours spent on screens.

Source: Wikipedia, Screen time (2016) en.wikipedia.org

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