181.9 million online adults out of 229.6 million total adults
Supplementary notes
Source classifies Generation Y as adults 24 to 32 years of age, Gen Xers as adults 33 to 46 years of age, and Younger Boomers as 47 to 56 years of age as of the time of publication.
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Number of online adults in the United States 2012, by age group
The statistic shows the number of online adults in the United States in various generations, as of ***. In that year, ** million Younger Boomers (ages 47 to 56) were online.
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