Are Baby Boomers wealthier than previous generations of older adults?
In 2022, all Boomer households combined owned $77 trillion in wealth. The top 10% of Boomer households held 71% of that total wealth.
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In 2020, Pew Research Center launched a new project called the National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS). NPORS is an annual, cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults. Respondents can answer either by paper or online, and they are selected using address-based sampling from the United States Postal Service’s computerized delivery sequence file.