Almost a third (31%) of the world's adults, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet recommended levels of physical activity in 2022, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which warns of harmful effects. The data, published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, shows an increase of around five percentage points between 2010...
The number of people with bank accounts has increased by 26% since 2023, according to Lusa, which cites data from an August statistical report by the Bank of Mozambique. By June this year, commercial banks in Mozambique had the equivalent of 30.1 bank accounts for every 100 adults, compared to 23.9 in 2013. Meanwhile, the...
TikTok, which has already overtaken YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook in terms of time used by US adults, is now chasing Netflix, according to a study, at a time when the authorities are considering banning the Chinese social network altogether. The platform, which belongs to the Chinese group ByteDance, first won over young people, but also adults...
Meta is taking new measures to protect teenagers' privacy settings. The company is making changes to the default privacy settings for teenagers' Facebook accounts, and further limiting the ability of adults deemed "suspicious" to send messages to youngsters on their social networks. According to...
A study by YouGov, a leading international Internet-based market research company, has shown that about half of adults (48%) worldwide always accept cookies from websites. The data reveals that Poland is the country with the highest acceptance rate, at over 60%. In the group of countries analyzed, the...