Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. Most also report getting scam calls, texts and emails at least weekly.
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.
In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.
More than four-in-ten Americans (44%) back bans on student cellphone use during the entire school day, up from 36% last fall.
Nine-in-ten U.S. teens say they use YouTube. Majorities also use TikTok (63%), Instagram (61%) and Snapchat (55%).
Use for work, to learn something new, or for entertainment has risen since March 2023. Adults under 30 are especially likely to use the chatbot in these ways.
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
Explore how adults in the U.S. and 35 other countries compare religiously and spiritually when it comes to affiliation, prayer, afterlife beliefs and more.
Countries that lost their Christian majorities all saw growing percentages of religiously unaffiliated people.
Majorities in both parties said in the 2022 survey that churches should avoid political endorsements.
The share of people who retain their childhood religious identity in adulthood varies across religious categories.
In 2023, 46% of all managers in the U.S. were women. This is up from 29% in 1980 but still slightly lower than the 49% of all workers who were women as of 2023.
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.
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.