2.61 h
2025 (latest)
TIME WATCHING TELEVISION
hours/day · 2003–2025 · neither direction is "better" · BLS American Time Use Survey Table A-1 and public API
2.58 h
2003
2.86 h
high · 2021
2.58 h
low · 2003
+1%
since 2003
┊ dashed lines mark 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. All persons age 15+, average hours per day including people who did not perform the activity. No 2020 annual estimate was published because pandemic-related collection gaps prevented a comparable annual estimate. Breaks: 2020 is absent because ATUS data collection was suspended during part of the year; activity and population definitions follow each annual table.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/TUU10101AA01014236
- https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables.htm
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Family-And-Society
Data
| Year | Time watching television | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.61 h | +0% |
| 2024 | 2.60 h | −3% |
| 2023 | 2.67 h | −4% |
| 2022 | 2.79 h | −2% |
| 2021 | 2.86 h | +2% |
| 2019 | 2.81 h | −1% |
| 2018 | 2.84 h | +3% |
| 2017 | 2.77 h | +1% |
| 2016 | 2.73 h | −2% |
| 2015 | 2.78 h | −1% |
| 2014 | 2.82 h | +2% |
| 2013 | 2.77 h | −2% |
| 2012 | 2.83 h | +3% |
| 2011 | 2.75 h | +1% |
| 2010 | 2.73 h | −3% |
| 2009 | 2.82 h | +2% |
| 2008 | 2.77 h | +6% |
| 2007 | 2.62 h | +2% |
| 2006 | 2.58 h | +0% |
| 2005 | 2.58 h | −3% |
| 2004 | 2.65 h | +3% |
| 2003 | 2.58 h | — |
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