Older Adults & Aging

The number of Americans ages 100 and older is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades.

Roughly one-in-five Americans ages 65 and older were employed in 2023 – nearly double the share of those who were working 35 years ago.

One-in-six Americans ages 50 and older (17%) say they have ever used a dating site or app.

As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, a significant increase from 20% in 2010.

Though Biden is 80 years old, most global leaders are in their 50s and 60s, and the median age of current national leaders is 62.

Evangelical Protestant adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem.

Adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest age group has grown markedly since about a decade ago.

Pew Research Center’s political typology sorts Americans into cohesive, like-minded groups based on their values, beliefs, and views about politics and the political system. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics.

As of the third quarter of 2021, 50.3% of U.S. adults 55 and older said they were out of the labor force due to retirement.

Here's what our surveys have found about how Americans across the age spectrum have experienced the coronavirus pandemic.