British teenage boys aged 15 to 17 spend nearly 34 hours on average a week playing video games, a new report revealed. That’s almost five hours a day, seven days a week, and that’s only according to parents’ estimates.

The data was based on a survey of more than 1,000 parents of 7 to 17-year-olds, polled on Mumsnet, an internet forum for parents of children and teenagers. The research was commissioned by Ygam, an independent UK charity dedicated to preventing gaming and gambling harms among young people. The bulk of the group’s funding comes from GambleAware, a UK charity, with additional support from the UK gambling industry and other individual sources.

While boys in the UK are bigger gamers than girls, the average time spent gaming for all genders has jumped 3.5 hours in the past year

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