Second Life® has released its April demographics and it continues to be heavily used by older people. According to Linden Lab™, 83.79% of the population is 25 years and older, and the older users spend far more time in Second Life than younger users with those 45 and older continuing to be the heaviest users on average.
- 45 and older: 70.17 hours per user per month
- 35-44: 66.06 hours per user per user per month
- 25-34: 55.55 hours per user per user per month
- 18-24: 37.84 hours per user per user per month
- Teen grid: 24.67 hours per user per user per month
Another trend which continues is that females spent nearly twice as long online in Second Life as males. Females make up 45.5% of the Second Life population.
Total user hours for April totaled 29,069,684 hours, down some from March’s record 30,625,176.73, but still better than any other prior month.
Resident Totals as the end of April 2008
Residents Logged-In
| During Last 7 Days | 436,491 |
| During Last 14 Days | 576,776 |
| During Last 30 Days | 792,281 |
| During Last 60 Days | 1,208,008 |
| Total Residents | 13,521,922 |
Current Users
from the Linden Blog
Resident user hours also grew 15% from an annualized rate of 304 million hours in Q4 to just under 350 million user hours in Q1. Residents spent an average of $0.88 per user hour in Q4 and $0.87 per user hour in Q1. Peak concurrent users grew 13.8% from 58,399 in Q4 to 66,468 in Q1.
Source - Linden Lab - Second Life Blog
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