In 1970, median family income was about 47.3% above the income needed to qualify for the median existing home. In the current 2024–2026 benchmark used in the Home Economics research, buying the median-priced home with a standard 10% down pa
CDC final 2024 data report that the suicide rate among males was nearly four times the rate among females. In 2023, the age-adjusted suicide rate was 22.7 deaths per 100,000 males versus 5.9 per 100,000 females, and males accounted for near
In 2024, the age-adjusted drug-overdose death rate was 32.2 per 100,000 for males and 14.1 per 100,000 for females. Both rates fell sharply from 2023, but the male rate remained more than twice the female rate.
Of 5,070 fatal occupational injuries recorded in the United States in 2024, 4,657 were men and 413 were women. Men therefore accounted for about 92% of all fatal work injuries.
In 2024, life expectancy at birth was 76.5 years for males and 81.4 years for females in the United States, a gap of 4.9 years.
U.S. colleges and universities awarded 2,015,035 bachelor’s degrees in 2021–22. Men received 835,316, about 41%, while women received 1,179,719, about 59%.
In 2022 NAEP reading results for public-school students, fourth-grade boys averaged 213 while girls averaged 219. Eighth-grade boys averaged 255 while girls averaged 263.
HUD counted 184,888 men and boys among people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in 2024, representing 67.4% of the unsheltered homeless population. Women and girls accounted for 30.6%.
At yearend 2023, 1,124,400 males were serving sentences longer than one year in state or federal prison. Males accounted for 93% of that sentenced prison population.
Among men ages 25 to 54, labor-force participation fell from 95.8% in 1970 to 89.1% in 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
