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Overall, just over half of U.S. adults, 54% or 130 million people, are deficient in basic literacy. [3] In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3. [1] Adults scoring in the lowest levels of literacy increased 9% between 2017 and 2023.
Rank Country (or dependent territory) Population (2023) % of pop. (2022) Average relative annual growth (%) [1] (2022) Average absolute annual growth (2015) [2] Date of last figure
The Hispanic or Latino population increased from 50.5 million in 2010 to 62.1 million in 2020, a 23% increase and a numerical increase of more than 11.6 million. [32] Immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants are expected to provide most of the U.S. population gains in the decades ahead. [33]
Just 67% of eighth-graders score at or above a basic level. American students’ reading skills are at their lowest level since testing began over 30 years ago
The number of marriages shot up to reach over 2 million in 1946, with a marriage rate of 16.4 per 1,000 people as WWII had ended. The average age at first marriage for both men and women began to fall after WWII, dropping 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women in 1950 and dropping even more to 22.5 and 20.1 years in 1956.
Cost-of-living in America is still out of ... it takes a net worth of $16.7 million or more for those over 65 to be considered super wealthy. People at this level “engage in just about anything ...
Single women own 20.3 million homes in the U.S., compared to single men, who own 14.9 million homes; married couples own 49.3 million homes in 2024, according to the Census Bureau.
The median wealth of married couples exceeds that of single individuals, regardless of gender and across all age categories. [11]It is impossible to understand people's behavior…without the concept of social stratification, because class position has a pervasive influence on almost everything…the clothes we wear…the television shows we watch…the colors we paint our homes in and the ...