Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Nearly half of U.S. adults are connected to Catholicism. Read about going to Mass, Communion, confession and more.
Abortion has long been a contentious issue in the United States, and it is one that sharply divides Americans along partisan, ideological and religious lines.
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.
About six-in-ten U.S. adults say food costs are extremely or very important to them when deciding what to buy.
About half of Americans (48%) say they have emergency or rainy day funds that would cover their expenses for three months.
Americans are most skeptical about U.S. trade with China: 10% say it benefits the U.S. more than China, while 46% take the opposite view.
Among blue-collar workers, 43% say they feel extremely or very satisfied with their jobs; by comparison, 53% of other workers express this level of satisfaction.
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed.
Most who use astrology (or a horoscope), tarot cards or a fortune teller say they do so just for fun rather than for insights about life.
From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people.
Majorities want the church to allow use of birth control and IVF, and to permit priests to bless same-sex couples. But views differ by Mass attendance.
Most X users say their recent experiences using the platform have been mostly positive or neutral.
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.
One month of web browsing data shows most respondents visited a search page with an AI-generated summary, but visits to in-depth content about AI were much rarer.
As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut.
Parents are more worried than teens about teen mental health. Both groups – especially parents – partly blame social media. But teens also see benefits.
Pew Research Center has deep roots in U.S. public opinion research. Launched as a project focused primarily on U.S. policy and politics in the early 1990s, the Center has grown over time to study a wide range of topics vital to explaining America to itself and to the world.
Pew Research Center regularly conducts public opinion surveys in countries outside the United States as part of its ongoing exploration of attitudes, values and behaviors around the globe.
Pew Research Center’s Data Labs uses computational methods to complement and expand on the Center’s existing research agenda.
Pew Research Center tracks social, demographic and economic trends, both domestically and internationally.
“A record 23 million Asian Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries … and the U.S. Asian population is projected to reach 46 million by 2060.”
Neil G. Ruiz,
Head of New Research Initiatives
The first video in Pew Research Center’s Methods 101 series helps explain random sampling – a concept that lies at the heart of all probability-based survey research – and why it’s important.