Between 2000 and 2021, the number of households headed by older Americans (people aged 55 or older) grew by an enormous 65 percent, accordin...

The 73 percent majority of Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, according to a Pew Research Center survey fielded A...

Who is the longest-lived human being on record? Her name was Jeanne Calment. She was born in Arles, France in 1875. She died 122 years and 1...

When Steve Jobs unveiled the first Apple iPhone on January 29, 2007, only 13 percent of adults lived in a "wireless-only" househol...

Just ahead of the holiday festivities, the National Center for Health Statistics has issued a report on trends in obesity by age. Do you thi...

The nation's electorate is changing in every way. It is getting older, becoming more diverse, and is increasingly educated. Pew Research...

In the final week of September, nearly one in four Americans aged 18 or older expected that they or someone in their household would lose em...

The mental health of Americans has taken a beating during the coronavirus pandemic. But mental health wasn't all that great in 2019, eit...

How long have you worked for your current employer? Among all wage and salary workers aged 16 or older, median tenure was 4.1 years as of Ja...

Water accounts for just over half of what American adults drink on an average day (not counting alcoholic beverages). Water is 51.2 percent ...

The nation's households are increasingly top heavy. Between 2010 and 2019, the number of households headed by people aged 55 or older gr...

Most Americans say they are using prayer as a way to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. The 55 percent majority of the public reports prayi...

The number of children in the United States fell by 1.5 percent between 2010 and 2019, according to the Census Bureau's population estim...

The decline in television viewing among younger Americans continues, according to the 2019 American Time Use Survey. People under age 55 are...

How often have you felt nervous, anxious, or on edge during the past week? Chances are, you've felt that way on at least several days, a...

The enormous economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is laid bare by the Census Bureau's new Household Pulse Survey, which is tracki...

Only 48 percent of the nation's 129 million households are headed by married couples, according to the Census Bureau's Current Popul...

Before coronavirus began to dominate the news, another sort of epidemic was capturing our attention: vaping. Remember those days? Here is th...

If hypertension is a risk factor for Covid-19, then many Americans are at risk. Nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension...

A Demo Memo analysis of the Census Bureau's 2019 population estimates by single-year of age reveals the ongoing decline of Gen X and old...