Among all age groups worldwide, those aged 30 to 39 years had the highest percentage of fitness mobile app users. It was estimated that in 2016, around 41 percent of those aged 30 to 39 years used fitness tracking apps to track their health. The popularity of fitness tracking apps has increased significantly within recent years.
App usage
Fitness apps are used to track many aspects of health and wellbeing. Not only are they used for health data such as fitness and nutrition, they can also be used for mental health and chronic illness tracking. Health app users access their apps in a variety of ways. The most common way that health app users accessed their apps was through their mobile phone. When app publishers were asked who they target their apps for, people with chronic illness were most commonly chosen as a target demographic for health apps.
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Fung Global Retail & Technology. (July 12, 2017). Percentage of the global population that used a mobile app or fitness tracking device to track their health as of 2016, by age [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 01, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/742448/global-fitness-tracking-and-technology-by-age/
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Fung Global Retail & Technology. (2017). Percentage of the global population that used a mobile app or fitness tracking device to track their health as of 2016, by age. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: September 01, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/742448/global-fitness-tracking-and-technology-by-age/
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