Frequency of creating passwords over 12-character long in the U.S. and U.K. 2021

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Justina Alexandra Sava,

Mar 8, 2023

One fifth of the surveyed participants from the United States and the United Kingdom always created unique passwords with more than 12 characters. By contrast, ten percent of respondents never created passwords that long in 2021.

Frequency of creating passwords over 12-character long and strong in the U.S. and in the U.K. in 2021

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Never	10%
Rarely	18%
Sometimes	30%
Very often	23%
Always	20%

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Release date

September 2021

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Region

United Kingdom, United States

Survey time period

August 10-18, 2021

Number of respondents

2,000 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online panel

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