Search results
10 mar 2020 · In the United States, 27% of adults ages 60 and older live alone, compared with 16% of adults in the 130 countries and territories studied.
Age-stratified meta-analyses of between-trial comparisons revealed that younger adults living alone increased the risk of mortality by 41%, while older adults did not. In the within-trial comparisons of sex, living alone increased the risk of dying to a greater extent in the males than in females.
Almost 1 in 10 young adults ages 18-34 and nearly 3 in 10 adults 65 or older lived alone in 2022, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. Among 25- to 34-year-olds, a larger share of women (43%) than men (34%) lived with a spouse and about 17% of young adult men and women in that age group lived with an unmarried partner.
A growing number (and share) of older people in the EU are living alone (particularly older women): they form a particularly vulnerable group in society, with an increased risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Living alone is becoming increasingly common around the world. In the US, the share of adults who live alone nearly doubled over the last 50 years. This is not only happening in the US: single-person households have become increasingly common in many countries across the world, from Angola to Japan.
In the United States as of 2020, about 28% (14.7 million) of community-dwelling older adults lived alone, including 21% of older men and 34% of older women. The percentage of people living alone increases with age (ie, among women ≥ 75 years, about 44% live alone).
23 kwi 2019 · About 28 percent of older adults in the United States, or 13.8 million people, live alone, according to a report by the Administration for Community Living’s Administration on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but many of them are not lonely or socially isolated.
