The graph below shows the percentage of people using the internet over three years, and it’s
divided by age groups to show who uses it. And how often they use it.
As we can see there is a bar graph that shows us the usage of internet over three years by 4 age
groups. The first would be the age group that’s less then 15 years old, the second age group is
from 16 to 30 years old, the third age group is from 31 to 50 and last would be higher than 50
years old.
In year 1998 we notice that the age group 16 to 30 came in as the highest age group to use the
internet at that year by a 53 percent where the second largest age group came at 41 percent
which is by the age group 31 to 50 years old and the age group that came in third was 50 years
and over with 4 percent, which leaves the age group less than 15 years old at the least with 2
percent only.
Coming on to the next year (1999) we see that there is a small decrease in the 16 to 30 age
group internet usage where it went down to 45 percent and a decrease as well in the 31 to 50
years old internet usage to 39 percent. We see an increase on the other age groups as well
where both age groups increased to 8 percent.
And in the next year (2000) we see that there is a decrease in the 16 to 30 age group which
dropped to 44 percent as well as the age group 31 to 50 which decreased to 37 percent, and
showed an increase in the age group 50 and more to a 10 percent. leaving the age group less
than 15 with a 9 percent.
To sum up, we see that there was a growth in the internet usage for all age groups which is not
only designated for a certain age group on a certain type of people, as technology developed,
we see that it became easier for the age groups less than 15 and 50 and more to use the
internet which led to this growth in using the internet.