Nearly 15 percent of women aged 15 or older (14.6 percent) lived by themselves in 2018. This figure has been slowly rising for decades, mostly because of the aging of the population. Older adults are more likely than their younger counterparts to live alone, and as the population ages, lone living is becoming more common overall. But the opposite is true for older women. As death rates for the two biggest killers—heart disease and cancer—have fallen among men, widowhood (and lone living) is being delayed.
Among women aged 65 to 74, the percentage who live alone fell by 7 percentage points between 1990 and 2018—from 33 to 26 percent. Among women aged 75 or older, the decline was nearly 10 percentage points during those years...
Percent of women aged 75 or older who live alone
2018: 44.2
2010: 47.3
2000: 49.4
1990: 54.0
Source: Demo Memo analysis of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey
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