In April 2024, 21.3 million French people aged 50 and over went online every day, including 18.3 million via their smartphones.

Thus, two-thirds (67%) of people aged 50 and over are daily mobile phone users, whereas only half of them used their mobile phones every day in 2019 (50%).

The daily surfing time of people aged 50 and over is 2 hours 15 minutes, 1 hour 30 minutes of which is on mobile phones.

Daily mobile phone use is particularly widespread among Generation X (50-64 year olds): three-quarters of them (77%) connect to the internet via their mobile phone every day, which is nearly as many as 25-49 year olds (79%). 

37% of 50-64-year-olds also only use their mobile phone for their daily surfing, compared to 18% 5 years ago.

During April, 50-64-year-olds spent 2 hours 48 minutes per day on the internet, including 2 hours on mobile phones.

In April 2024, 56.1 million people went online during the month (up by 1.4 million compared to April 2023), that’s 87.5% of the French population. Every day, 47.2 million of them browsed the internet.

French people spent an average of 2 hours 35 minutes on the internet each day, which is 
9 minutes more than in April 2023. Mobile phones account for 80% of their daily surfing time, a share that has increased by 2 points compared to last year.

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