what is the daily average amount of tiktok video content consumed by youth between may 2019 through february 2020 in america, the uk and spain?
Between May 2019 and February 2020, kids and young teens in the U.S., U.K., and Spain were already spending about 1 to 1.5 hours per day on TikTok on average, with country-to-country differences.
Core numbers (May 2019 – Feb 2020)
These figures come from parental-control/app-usage tracking data (Qustodio) that monitored real daily use on children’s devices in those three countries.
Here’s the key data point summarizing where usage ended up by February 2020 (ages roughly 4–15):
| Country | Average daily TikTok time (kids) by Feb 2020 | Period of growth measured |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ≈ 82 minutes per day (about 1 hour 22 minutes) | From May 2019 to Feb 2020, usage rose by 116% to reach this level. | [1][3]
| United Kingdom | ≈ 69 minutes per day (a bit over 1 hour) | From May 2019 to Feb 2020, usage rose by 97% to reach this level. | [3][1]
| Spain | ≈ 60 minutes per day (about 1 hour) | From May 2019 to Feb 2020, usage rose by 150% to reach this level. | [1][3]
How this reflects “daily average amount of TikTok content”
If you interpret “daily average amount of TikTok video content consumed” as average watch-time per day for youth:
- U.S. youth (4–15): around 80+ minutes per day by February 2020.
- U.K. youth: around 70 minutes per day.
- Spanish youth: around 60 minutes per day.
The same dataset indicates that these numbers represent rapid growth over that May 2019–February 2020 window, not a flat average over the whole period. Early in the period the averages would have been significantly lower, but by February 2020 they had climbed to the levels above.
Because TikTok videos are mostly very short (often 15–60 seconds), an hour or more of watch-time can mean dozens to well over a hundred videos per day, depending on how often users swipe away, rewatch, or pause.
Important caveats
- These figures are for children (roughly 4–15) , not all “youth” up to 24 or older; for older teens, usage is likely higher but less precisely measured in this specific dataset.
- The numbers are by country , not global, and come from logged app-usage on monitored devices, which may not capture every device a young person uses.
- The “between May 2019 and February 2020” wording in the study refers to the growth interval ; the clearest concrete values are the end-point averages by February 2020 (82, 69, 60 minutes per day).
So, the best available concrete answer for that period is that kids in America, the U.K., and Spain were consuming roughly 1–1.5 hours of TikTok video per day by February 2020, with the U.S. highest, then the U.K., then Spain.
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