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Screen and outdoor time reference

What each body says about screen time and outdoor time, by age.

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Step by step

Matched by age, one source at a time. Bodies do not agree on what “screen time” even counts — some include every screen, some exclude schoolwork, some cover only recreational use. Averaging them would produce a recommendation nobody actually issued.

What this number cannot tell you

No single country’s guidance is applied to every child, and no myopia risk is calculated from hours used — that needs findings from cohort studies, not a table of durations.

Common questions

Why is there no number?
There is no figure here that can be given with confidence, so none is given. The normal range for questions like this is wide anyway — a few minutes with a paediatrician or dentist usually settles it.
What if my child’s age or country is not covered?
It will say plainly that this age is not covered, rather than borrow figures from another age or another country. How far a standard reaches is set by whoever published it, and stretching it gives a placing that is simply wrong.

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