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reportDec 14, 2023

Older Workers Are Growing in Number and Earning Higher Wages

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.
reportMar 30, 2023

How Americans View Their Jobs

Most workers are highly satisfied with their relationship with their co-workers and manager, but relatively few feel the same about their pay or opportunities for promotion.
short readsNov 4, 2021

Amid the pandemic, a rising share of older U.S. adults are now retired

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.
short readsNov 9, 2020

The pace of Boomer retirements has accelerated in the past year

In the third quarter of 2020, about 28.6 million Baby Boomers reported that they were out of the labor force due to retirement.
short readsJun 20, 2016

More older Americans are working, and working more, than they used to

More Americans ages 65 and older are employed than at any time since at least 2000, and they’re spending more time on the job.
reportFeb 18, 2016

Smaller Share of Women Ages 65 and Older Are Living Alone

After rising steadily for nearly a century, the share of older Americans who live alone has fallen since 1990, largely because women ages 65 to 84 are increasingly likely to live with their spouse or their children.
featureMay 21, 2015

Family Support in Graying Societies

America is turning gray, with the share of people ages 65 and older expected to rise more than 50% by 2050 – a trend that may burden more families. But Germany and Italy are already there, with a fifth of their population in that age range.
short readsMar 7, 2014

6 new findings about Millennials

Key takeaways from the Pew Research Center survey, “Millennials in Adulthood.”
reportJan 30, 2014

Chapter 3. Aging in Major Regions of the World, 2010 to 2050

The trends in population growth and aging in the countries included in this report reflect the trends for the regions in which they are located. In all major regions of the world, the population of seniors is growing faster than the populations of other age groups and the median age is on the rise. But […]
reportJan 30, 2014

Survey Methods

About the 2013 Spring Pew Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Survey results are based on national samples. For further details on sample designs, see below. The descriptions below show the margin of sampling error based on […]

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