B Evidence Grade B Graded under review Safe to Cite Dated

95%

95% -- social media usage rate for US youths aged 13-17 (2023)

Name: Social Media Usage Rate Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-25

2023 · U.S. Surgeon General

Cite this stat Share How we verify

Attribution: U.S. Surgeon General View source

Lighthouse Research Team

Last verified: 2026-09-25 · How we verify data →

Source verified Evidence graded

Value

95%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2023

Entity

US youths aged 13-17

Geography

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

U.S. Surgeon General Primary Tier B

https://tokenoftrust.com/blog/social-media-age-verification-coppa-kosa/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2023 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

COPPA 2.0, KOSA, State Laws: Age Verification | Token of Trust

Age Verification The Race To Age Verification: Protecting Young Americans Online Protecting American youth online with COPPA 2.0 and KOSA: The race to age verification on Social Media. Learn how new laws affect businesses. Concerns for Young Americans Online For years, widely-used apps such as Insta…

Original Research

U.S. Surgeon General · Original study ↗

Methodology

Cited from U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory study

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymedia_entertainment RegionUS Channelsocial

Cite this stat

Plain Text

US youths aged 13-17: 95% social media usage rate. Source: U.S. Surgeon General (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/youth-social-media-usage-95pct

HTML Embed

<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youth-social-media-usage-95pct" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>95%</strong> -- social media usage rate for US youths aged 13-17<br><small>Source: U.S. Surgeon General (2023) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youth-social-media-usage-95pct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>

Share on X Share on LinkedIn

Related Statistics

Use this data in your work

Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.

Copy citation Explore similar stats →