Americans Watch Almost Double As Much TV As The Chinese

• Wonder which country loves TV the most?
• In a recent article, Statista data journalist Felix Richter shared a look into the average time spent watching TV per day in different countries around the globe.
• Unsurprisingly, the U.S. leads this list, with 282 minutes -more than four and a half hours- per day.

The relationship between the U.S. and audiovisual content is very strong. The country is the home and source of many of the world’s favorite content, from Hollywood movies to The Simpsons – and a bunch of stuff in between. So, it is not surprising that the U.S. leads the list of the world’s biggest TV lovers.

Even as the popularity of streaming services like Netflix, Inc. NFLX, Hulu and Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN’s Prime continues to grow in the U.S., Americans spend –in average- more time watching traditional TV than people in any other country – among the ICMR comparator countries.

According to Ofcom’s latest International Communications Market Report, people in the U.S. spent, in average, 4 hours and 42 minutes per day watching TV in 2014. This figure compares to the U.K.’s 3 hours and 40 minutes a day, France and Germany’s 3 hours and 41 minutes a day, and China’s 2 hours and 37 minutes per day. On the other hand, there’s Sweden, with the lowest level of TV viewing among comparator countries: 2 hours and 33 minutes per day.

The chart below illustrates how long people spend watching TV on an average day in different countries around the globe.

Disclosure: Javier Hasse holds no positions in any of the securities mentioned above.