UNDER-30s are spending significantly more time by themselves than the previous generation, a report found.

Gen Z men aged 18 to 29 are alone for an average of six-and-a-half hours a day — two hours more than lads the same age in 2015.

Gen Z men aged 18 to 29 are alone for an average of six-and-a-half hours a day Credit: Getty

Under-30s are spending significantly more time by themselves Credit: Getty

Young women’s time on their own has also risen to an average of five hours per day — up 90 minutes.

The research — titled All By Myself — warned isolation may be damaging social lives, relationships, careers and physical and mental health.

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The data, taken from surveys of Britons between 2015 and 2023, found modern young men spend about 40 per cent of their waking hours alone.

Working from home accounted for at least two thirds of the rise in time people were alone.

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And young adults spend triple the amount of time working by themselves as they did in 2015.

Report author Parth Pandya, from think tank the Resolution Foundation, said: “Younger people not only spend more time alone but are lonelier.

“They are also making weaker income progress than previous generations.”

In contrast, time spent unaccompanied has decreased for over-60s in the past ten years.

Ministers want to improve the lives of young adults as mental health problems have increased.

It comes as figures show that almost one in every seven under-25s are not working or in education — more than a million youngsters.

Mr Pandya added: “If policy makers are serious about improving young people’s wellbeing, then work needs to be part of the debate as much as screen time.”