"In 1960, just 13 percent of American households had a single occupant. But that figure has risen steadily, and today it is approaching 30 percent. For households headed by someone 50 or older, that figure is 36 percent.
Nearly 26 million Americans 50 or older now live alone, up from 15 million in 2000."
More Older Adults Are Living Alone
Number of adults living alone in the United States, by age group
A Growing Share of Older Adults Are Unmarried
Segment of U.S. adult population 50 and older, by marital status
See As Gen X and Boomers Age, They Confront Living Alone by Dana Goldstein and Robert Gebeloff of The NY Times.
"The U.S. imported about 18.3% by value of its food and beverages in 2020, up from 13.2% in 2008, according to the Agriculture Department. Globally, the share of wheat consumption sourced from abroad rose to 25% in 2019 from 17% in 1995, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute."
See Globalized Supply Chain Brings More-Turbulent Food Prices by Alistair MacDonald of The WSJ.
"In the U.S., 30% of grocery transactions were completed using self-checkout in 2021, up from 18% in 2018, according to research from FMI, a food-industry trade group whose members include supermarket chains.
About 200,000 self-checkout units were shipped to retailers globally in 2021, up from about 141,000 in 2019, according to a report from London-based research and consulting firm RBR, which analyzed supplier data from 53 countries."
See Disabled Shoppers Struggle With Inaccessible Self-Checkouts by Katie Deighton of The WSJ.
"America’s population grew 0.4% this year" (2022)
"still greater than the unprecedented low rate of 0.1% recorded in 2021."
"The U.S. added 1.3 million people in the year that ended July 1 for a total population of 333.3 million. That included 245,000 more births than deaths, a surplus that has long supplied much of the nation’s growth. The other component, which measures people moving in and out of the country, grew by one million.
Population growth had been slowing before the pandemic, but had averaged more than two million a year over the last decade."
"Eighteen states lost population, led by New York (minus 0.9%), Illinois (minus 0.8%) and Louisiana (minus 0.8%). California, the nation’s most populous state, saw a decline of 0.3%."
"States that recorded the largest percentage gains were Florida (1.9%), Idaho (1.8%), South Carolina (1.7%) and Texas (1.6%)."
"populations have begun to shrink in Japan and many Eastern European nations, as well as Germany, Italy, Greece and Portugal. China’s population of 1.4 billion might have peaked, growing just 0.03% in 2021."
"After dropping 20% from its recent-history peak in 2007, the U.S. birthrate edged up again in the year that ended June 30. It was 2% higher than a year earlier and reached 56.4 per 1,000 women age 15 to 44"
See U.S. Population Growth Remains Sluggish Despite Uptick This Year by Paul Overberg and John McCormick of The WSJ.
See Their Mothers Were Teenagers. They Didn’t Want That for Themselves by Jason DeParle of The NY Times."Teen births have fallen by more than three-quarters in the last three decades"
"Teen births have fallen by 77 percent since 1991, and among young teens the decline is even greater, 85 percent, according to an analysis by Child Trends, a research group that studies children’s well-being. Births have fallen at roughly equal rates among teenagers who are white, Hispanic and Black, and they have fallen by more than half in every state.
The decline is accelerating: Teen births fell 20 percent in the 1990s, 28 percent in the 2000s and 55 percent in the 2010s. Three decades ago, a quarter of 15-year-old girls became mothers before turning 20, according to Child Trends estimates, including nearly half of those who were Black or Hispanic. Today, just 6 percent of 15-year-old girls become teen mothers."
"The share of female teens who did not use birth control the last time they had sex dropped by more than a third over the last decade, according to an analysis of government surveys by the Guttmacher Institute. The share using the most effective form, long-acting reversible contraception (delivered through an intrauterine device or arm implant), rose fivefold to 15 percent. The use of emergency contraception also rose."
"the share of high school students who say they have had sexual intercourse has fallen 29 percent since 1991"
"The share of U.S. workers who are members of unions fell to a record low last year even though unions added more members than in any year since 2008 following union elections at workplaces including Starbucks Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
About 10.1% of wage and salary workers were union members last year, down from 10.3% in 2021, the Labor Department said Thursday. The membership rate has been falling for decades as the economy has become more reliant on services industries, where workers haven’t traditionally been unionized.
Union membership grew by 273,000 last year to 14.3 million, a rise of 1.9%. But the overall labor force grew by 5.3 million, or 3.9%, the department said.
Unions remain the exception in most private-sector workplaces. About 7.2 million private-sector workers, or about 6% of the 120.36 million private-sector workforce, were represented by unions last year, the Labor Department said. That compared with about 7.1 million public-sector union members, or 33.1% of the 21.32 million public-sector workforce."
See Union Membership Rate Hits Record Low Despite Votes at Apple, Amazon, Starbucks by David Harrison of The WSJ.
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