The video gaming industry is huge and shows no signs of slowing down. While there were almost two billion video gamers across the world in 2015, this figure is expected to rise to over three billion gamers by 2023.
Gaming is not just huge in Asia Pacific as it has also gripped players throughout the United States. In 2018, gamers accounted for 66 percent of the general U.S. population, up from 58 percent just five years earlier. While gaming is classically seen as a hobby of the young and the male, data suggests that the love of gaming is shared by young and old alike. In fact, it seems that female gamers will be a force to be reckoned with in the future as they made up 41 percent of the U.S. gaming population in 2020, up from 38 percent in 2007.
Number of active video gamers worldwide from 2015 to 2023
(in billions)
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Sport Hiatus. (June 25, 2020). Number of active video gamers worldwide from 2015 to 2023 (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 07, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/748044/number-video-gamers-world/
Sport Hiatus. "Number of active video gamers worldwide from 2015 to 2023 (in billions)." Chart. June 25, 2020. Statista. Accessed March 07, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/748044/number-video-gamers-world/
Sport Hiatus. (2020). Number of active video gamers worldwide from 2015 to 2023 (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 07, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/748044/number-video-gamers-world/
Sport Hiatus. "Number of Active Video Gamers Worldwide from 2015 to 2023 (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 25 Jun 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/748044/number-video-gamers-world/
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