The 2025 World Happiness Report, using U.S. time-use data, reported that about 26% of American adults ate all of their meals alone on the previous day in 2023. Among Americans living with other people, 18% ate all meals alone in 2023, compa
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%.
AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving reported that one in five family caregivers said they could not afford basic needs such as food in 2025.
Bureau of Economic Analysis household-production estimates show that women averaged about 40 hours per week in household production in 1965. By 2010, women’s household-production time had fallen to about 26 hours per week.
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.
Pew Research Center, using government data, reported that 18% of U.S. adults ages 25–34 lived in a parent’s home in 2023.
Bureau of Economic Analysis expanded household-production statistics estimated that household production value added represented about 16% of extended U.S. GDP in 2024.
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.
Pew Research Center’s analysis of Census data found that the share of the U.S. population living in multigenerational households rose from 7% in 1971 to 18% in 2021. The number of people living in such households reached 59.7 million in 202
U.S. Census Bureau analysis reported that households experiencing difficulty obtaining adequate childcare lost an average of 65.8 days of work time in 2024.
