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4 sourced facts about single and unmarried adults, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Answer29 years old
Women's median first-marriage age has risen from 21 in the early 1970s to about 29 today, tracking closely with men's rising age.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, cited via Wikipedia (2024) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 9%
Never-marrying used to be rare among this age group; today more than a third have never married.
Source: Wikipedia, citing Pew Research/Census data (2018) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 13.3 million more single people
The study linked the increase to relationships that dissolved or never formed during the disruptions of the pandemic years.
Source: Stanford University study, cited via Wikipedia (2024) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 60%
Stockholm is often cited as having one of the highest single-occupancy household rates of any major city in the world.
Source: Wikipedia, Single person (2020) en.wikipedia.org