Demographics - Who takes the most selfies?
Age Group16 - 24 year olds are the age group that are the most obsessed with selfies.
GenderA study by selfiecity found that women in Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paolo took between 1.3 - 4.6 times more pictures than men in the same countries.
CitiesMakati City in the Philippines takes the most selfies, with 258 selfie takers per 100,000 people.
Manhattan and Miami in America follow in 2nd and 3rd place with with 202 and 155 selfies takers per 100,000 people respectively. |
CountriesAustralia is the country that takes the most selfies, taking
and is followed by the United States of America and Canada. CelebritiesMiley Cyrus holds the record of the most selfies on Twitter, with over 121 pictures of herself.
On Instagram, the title goes to Kylie Jenner, who currently has over 451 selfies on her account. |
Retouching/Editing14% of selfies online have been digitally enhanced.
36% of selfie takers have confessed to editing their pictures. 34% of males admitted to editing all their selfies, however only 13% of females admitted to doing the same. It is likely that these statistics are skewed as people may not want to disclose this information. Common retouches39% of edits involve changing skin tone
24% involve eye colour and/or brightness 13% involve eye shape/size 11% involve changing body/face shape or lips |