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Short-form data and analysis from Pew Research Center writers and social scientists. To view all our reports and publications, visit our main Publications page.

short readJun 9, 2026

Pew Research Center illustration showing (from left) Nepal Prime Minister Balen Shah, Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Argentina President Javier Milei, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, U.S. President Donald Trump and Cameroon President Paul Biya. (Getty Images; AFP and Andalou via Getty Images)

As Trump turns 80, only 16 of 186 national leaders are older. The median leader age is 63, while Nepal’s 36-year-old PM is the youngest.

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A Statue of Liberty sculpture is displayed outside a polling station in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 4, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

short readJun 5, 2026

A parishioner prays during the Ash Wednesday service at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver on Feb. 18, 2026. (AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

short readsApr 30, 2009

Children of Unauthorized Immigrants Born in the U.S.

Unauthorized immigrants are more likely to have children than are U.S.-born residents, and an increasing number (73%) are born in the U.S.
short readsApr 30, 2009

Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S.

An estimated 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants are now living in the United States.
short readsApr 30, 2009

Mexico to America

About 11% of now living persons born in Mexico is currently living in the U.S.
short readsApr 30, 2009

Mexican Immigrants

A third of all immigrants living in the U.S. are from Mexico.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Alaska, the Least ‘Sticky’ State

Just 28% of adults born in Alaska still live there, placing it last among the 50 states on this measure of population “stickiness.”
short readsApr 21, 2009

Younger People Less Knowledgeable

On a 12-question news quiz, young adults answered fewer than half correctly on average.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Econ 101

More Americans know the unemployment rate than the level of the Dow.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Losing Journalists

The Project for Excellence in Journalism estimates that one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 no longer does so.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Could You Give Up Your Cell Phone?

A majority of Americans say it would be very hard to give up their cell phone.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Do U Txt?

Ambivalent Networkers — the 7% of Americans most dedicated to their cell phones — are always connected but don’t always love to hear their phone ring, vibrate or play a downloaded song.

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As Trump turns 80, who are the oldest – and youngest – current world leaders?

What the data says about abortion in the U.S.

Americans are more dissatisfied with how their democracy is working than people in other high-income countries

Vance is among 1.5% of Americans who have converted to Catholicism

Children of Unauthorized Immigrants Born in the U.S.

Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S.

Mexico to America

Mexican Immigrants

Alaska, the Least ‘Sticky’ State

Younger People Less Knowledgeable

Econ 101

Losing Journalists

Could You Give Up Your Cell Phone?

Do U Txt?

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