U.S. adults

A November 2025 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 33% of U.S. adults approved of the way President Donald Trump was managing the federal government, down from 43% in a March 2025 AP-NORC poll.

A 2025 AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 47% of U.S. adults in 2025 were 'not very' or 'not at all confident' they could find a good job if they wanted, compared with 37% in October 2023.

A 2025 AP-NORC poll found that 36% of U.S. adults said electricity bills were a 'major' source of stress, just over one-half said the cost of groceries was a 'major' source of financial stress, about four in ten said the cost of housing and the cost of health care were a serious strain, and about one-third reported high stress about gasoline prices.

A 2025 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that roughly six in ten U.S. adults said President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress had "a great deal" or "quite a bit" of responsibility for the government shutdown.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found notable changes since September 2021: overall frustration with the Democratic Party increased to 75% from 64% in September 2021; the share saying the Democratic Party makes them feel hopeful fell to 28% from 39% in 2021 and the share saying it makes them feel proud fell to 16% from 25% in 2021; by contrast, the shares saying the Republican Party makes them feel hopeful and proud rose to 36% (from 31% in 2021) and 27% (from 21% in 2021), respectively, while Republican-party frustration edged down to 64% from 68% in 2021.

In 2025, 71% of U.S. adults said relations with Germany were very or somewhat good, representing a 13 percentage-point decline from 2024, and 24% of U.S. adults said relations with Germany were bad.

In 2025, U.S. adults generally viewed China and Russia as major military threats to the United States, while German adults generally viewed Russia but not China as a major security threat; both U.S. and German publics perceived China as an economic threat and expressed concern about China's growing influence.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults found that 32% reported having a will, 31% reported having a living will or advance health care directive, and 20% reported having made arrangements for their own burial or funeral.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey of 8,750 U.S. adults, including 2,582 adults ages 65 and older, found that 18% of U.S. adults were ages 65 and older.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that 960,000 of the United States' Indian population of 4.9 million (approximately 20%) lived in California.

A 2025 Gallup analysis found that nearly one in ten U.S. adults reported having been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime.

An October 2021 AP-NORC poll found that 41% of U.S. adults approved of how President Joe Biden was handling the economy in October 2021, including about 73% approval among Democrats and about 29% approval among independents.

A study by the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California analyzing 2017–2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data found that about 7% of U.S. adults aged 20 and older had detectable blood levels of tetrachloroethylene (PCE).

Gallup's two-year average data showed that lifetime cancer diagnosis rates among U.S. adults hovered at or just above 7% during the 2008-2009 through 2014-2015 periods.

More than half of U.S. adults consume alcohol, and roughly one in ten U.S. adults have alcohol use disorder.