How much longer would Americans live if cancer were eliminated as a cause of death? That calculation has been done by the National Center fo...

Daytime population statistics might explain why the EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20 resulted in relatively few deaths. Th...

It used to be fun to track Internet adoption statistics, watching the numbers climb higher each year. Now, with Internet use almost universa...

Among the nation's 304 million people, only 1.5 million are of Arab ancestry according to a 2006-10 American Community Survey analysis. ...

Only 18 percent of the oldest boomers (born in 1946 and aged 66 in 2012) plan to move sometime in the future, down from the 25 percent who p...

Median household income was stable in April 2013, according to the latest monthly update from Sentier Research. The April median of $51,456 ...

The more urban the county, the greater the population growth during the 2010 to 2012 time period, according to an analysis of the Census Bu...

Nearly one-third of Americans (32 percent) agree with the statement, "Engineers are apt to be odd and peculiar people," and men th...

The United States is the third largest country in the world. This makes it hard to provide a public education to all children because many l...

The nation's urban areas are growing, and rural areas are losing people. This is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the post-G...

In the best of all possible worlds, one-quarter of students attending a four-year college would earn a bachelor's degree each year. Unfo...

If you think teenagers aren't paying attention to current events, these findings may change your mind. Between 2007 and 2011, the birth ...

Your health in six dimensions: drinking, smoking, aerobic activity, muscle strengthening activity, weight, and sleep. This is what the gover...

Most teenagers are on Facebook, and most have hundreds of friends. The median is 300. Here is the distribution of Facebook users aged 12 to ...

The average American household devotes more than $500 a year to pets, or 1 percent of its expenditures, according to an analysis by the Bure...

The larger the metro, the more likely college graduates are to land a job that makes use of their degree and college major. This is the unsu...

Add another item to the long list of troubles plaguing Generation X. The way things are going, according to a new study, Gen Xers will be fo...

Percent distribution of American adults by the frequency with which they fly commercial airlines for business or personal reasons... Never...

That's the premise of tech guru Jaron Lanier's chilling new book on what the Internet is doing to us. In Who Owns the Future , he wa...

Percentage of Americans who are "not too" or "not at all" worried that they or someone in their family will become a vic...