Recent findings from the Pew 研究 Center show how demographic forces are driving population changes and reshaping how we live.

  1. 结婚的美国人越来越少. 只有一半的U.S. adults today are married, down from 70% in 1950. The increase in unmarried adults was greatest in those ages 50 and older—75% in the same time span—reflecting the rising divorce rate for the age cohort.
  2. More generations are living together. There are nearly 61 million multigenerational households in the U.S. as of 2014, which includes two or more adult generations or grandparents and grandchildren. Growing Asian and Hispanic populations, which are more likely to live in multigenerational households than whites, 解释一下增长的原因.
  3. Women might never make up half the workforce. 女性46人.8%的美国.S. 2015年劳动力, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the share of women in the workforce will peak at 47.1% in 2025 before tapering off. 性别收入差距正在缩小, 然而, and is even narrower for young adults, with working women ages 25 to 34 making 90% of what their male counterparts made.
  4. Immigrants are driving workforce growth. 美国的增长.S. working-age population (ages 25 to 64) will be driven by immigrants and their U.S.-born children through 2035 because of a lack of U.S. 出生时患有U型糖尿病的孩子.S. 父母出生的. There would be 18 million fewer working-age adults in 2035 without immigrants.
  5. The share of middle-income households is falling. In 2010, 59% of American adults lived in middle-income households—those with disposable incomes that are two-thirds to double the national median disposable income—down from 62% in 1991. The decline of middle-income households in the U.S. was mirrored across Western Europe, but most Western European countries had a larger share of adults in middle-income households that the U.S.