Titulo: Percentage of single people by age

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Publicado: Friday 17 de April de 2026, 14:47 Hello, Guest! Article about percentage of single people by age: Sex recessions. Deaths of despair. Heck, some of us are even alone in the ivory tower (the title of a paper I published in 2010). GO TO SITE Now come new data from Pew, which suggests that among young adults, one-third of women and an astonishing 63% of men are single. There’s No Huge Gender Gap in Being Single Among Young Adults. Falling marriage rates. Sex recessions. Deaths of despair. Heck, some of us are even alone in the ivory tower (the title of a paper I published in 2010). Now come new data from Pew, which suggest that among young adults, one-third of women and an astonishing 63% of men are single. That’s such a remarkable gender difference that further scrutiny is warranted. Happily, the Pew findings aren’t consistent with the latest data from the General Social Survey. The gender gap isn’t nearly as large as the Pew report suggests, there are only modest trends over the past decade, and the data seem prone to various biases. Figure 1 shows relationship status for young adults over the past 10 years based on the GSS variable POSSLQ, which places respondents in one of four categories: Married Cohabiting Married or partnered but living apart Single. These lines represent the percentage of survey respondents identifying as being single. There’s no trend over the past decade for men. For women, the percentage saying they’re single has crept upwards. For two of the five waves of data, in 2012 and 2016, there is a big gender gap of 25 percentage points. In the other three years, the gender gap is much smaller, around 10 percentage points. This variability means we shouldn’t take the Pew report and its 30-point gender gap at face value. Nonetheless, there is a gender gap of at least 10 percentage points. This likely has two explanations. First, the great majority of GSS respondents are in heterosexual relationships, and men tend to date younger women (the age gap is even greater for same-sex couples). This means that many women in the 18-29 age group are dating men outside the group. Second, there may be a great deal of uncertainty in what counts as a partner. One way to speak to this is to use a different GSS question, just inquiring about any sexual activity in the past year. Figure 2 shows much lower rates of celibacy, little change over the past 10 years, and minimal gender differences. Obviously, some of the difference between the top and bottom lines can be attributed to hook ups, friends with benefits, and other kinds of non-partner sex. But all of it? Most young people just don’t do that much fooling around outside of relationships, and don’t have that many total lifetime partners. And perhaps more obviously, the POSSLQ question asks about current relationship status, while the questions about sex cover the previous year. We can’t know for sure with General Social Survey data, of course. Percentage of single people by age

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