
UK mobile phone gaming reach 2012-2021, by age group
gaming uptake increased in 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
An October 2020 to January 2021 survey of UK adults aged 16 years and older found that 58 percent of respondents aged between 16 and 24 years had ever played games on their mobile phone, up from a 47 percent gaming penetration among the same age group in the previous year. Mobile gaming saw double digit gains across all age groups, with mobile gamers aged 35 to 44 years experiencing the biggest growth of 24 percentage points. Overall,