The pie charts present information on how the motives behind teens’ phone use changed in an African country between 2016 and 2019.
In general, among four reasons, social networks saw a noticeable growth and remained the dominant figure by the end of the period. Even though the shares of email and phone calls witnessed remarkable drops, the figure for digital cameras went up considerably. Moreover, it is also worth mentioning that there had been some fluctuations in the proportions of all statistics over the period given.
2016 was the year in which social networks were recorded as the largest, with 50%, while email made up a quarter. Additionally, digital cameras and phone calls constituted the remaining quarter, the former being 15% and the latter 10%. In the following year, 2017, minor differences can be seen, as the percentage of social networks minimally decreased to 48%, and email made up half of it. For 2018, social networks were slightly more than half (51%), whereas email accounted for one-fifth. Digital cameras took place in third position with 18%. However, phone calls had almost maintained the same level compared to the previous year, accounting for 11%. Coming to the year 2019, the predominance of social networks had been unchanged, even further growing to 56%, whereas phone calls were the least popular option again, dropping to just 5%. Lastly, the figures for digital cameras and email showed nearly similar results, 20% and 19%, respectively.