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Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Striking findings from 2025
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Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?
Many U.S. adults (35%) have moved on from the religion of their youth. Yet most Americans have not, including a majority – 56% – who still identify with their childhood religion.
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Religion Holds Steady in America
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Young Adults and the Future of News
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Younger Americans are less likely than others to support an active role for the U.S. in world affairs
Overall, 53% of Americans say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to take an active role in world affairs.
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U.S. stands out globally in how it draws legislative districts
Among 107 democracies, we found that only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the U.S.
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Trump has already issued more executive orders in his second term than in his first
Before Trump, the last time a president surpassed 100 executive orders in the first year of a term was 1945, when Harry Truman took over the presidency after FDR’s death.
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Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?
A majority of adults still identify with their childhood religion, but 35% don’t. Read about when and why Americans may switch faiths or stay.
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Growing shares say the Trump administration is doing ‘too much’ to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally
Overall, 50% of adults disapprove of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration, including 36% who strongly disapprove.
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Politics & Policy
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Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage
Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
Features
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Public Trust in Government: 1958-2025
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How religious is your state?
Artificial Intelligence
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Republicans, Democrats now equally concerned about AI in daily life, but views on regulation differ
Overall, 44% of U.S. adults say they trust the U.S. a lot or some to regulate the use of AI effectively, while 47% have little to no trust in the U.S. to do this.
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What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom
Data centers accounted for 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024. Their energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030.
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How People Around the World View AI
Most adults across 25 countries are aware of AI, and people are generally more concerned than excited about its effects on daily life.
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About 1 in 5 U.S. workers now use AI in their job, up since last year
Workers younger than 50 and workers with a bachelor’s degree or more education are among the most likely to use AI in their job.
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How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
Americans are worried about using AI more in daily life, seeing harm to human creativity and relationships. But they’re open to AI use in weather forecasting, medicine and other data-heavy tasks.
Religion
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Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few countries
Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more concentrated than that.
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If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations
If the U.S. had 100 people, 62 would be Christians, including 40 Protestants, 19 Catholics, two Latter-day Saints and two who identify with other Christian groups.
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Key facts about Black Americans and religion
Most Black Americans are Christian, though the share who identify as such has fallen since 2007.
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Growing Share of U.S. Adults Say Religion Is Gaining Influence in American Life
Americans’ views of religion’s role in society have grown more positive in recent years. But many feel their religious beliefs conflict with the mainstream.
News Habits & Media
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Americans are following the news less closely than they used to
In 2016, 51% of U.S. adults said they followed the news all or most of the time, but that share fell to 36% in 2025.
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More Americans prefer to watch the news than read or listen to it
A majority of Americans who prefer to watch the news (62%) say they prefer to get it from TV, rather than another platform.
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News Influencers Fact Sheet
About one-in-five U.S. adults say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, and this is especially common among younger adults.
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How Americans’ trust in information from news organizations and social media sites has changed over time
Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025.
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Pew Research Center regularly conducts public opinion surveys in countries outside the United States as part of its ongoing exploration of attitudes, values and behaviors around the globe.
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We’re in an era where the people most likely to respond to a poll are also the most likely to vote Democratic for president. Pew Research Center’s head methodologist Courtney Kennedy explains how pollsters are tackling this challenge to make samples as representative as possible.
Signature Reports
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Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off
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America’s News Influencers
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Race and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Schools
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Representative Democracy Remains a Popular Ideal, but People Around the World Are Critical of How It’s Working
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Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics
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Measuring Religion in China
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Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports
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Americans view Trump, Vance and congressional leaders in both parties more negatively than positively
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Same-Sex Parents Raising Kids
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How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020
Immigration & Migration
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Key facts about U.S. Latinos
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U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached a Record 14 Million in 2023
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What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.
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Americans Have Mixed to Negative Views of Trump Administration Immigration Actions
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Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship draws more disapproval than approval
International Affairs
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People Around the World Want Political Change, but Many Doubt It Can Happen
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German Views of the U.S.-Germany Relationship Turn Sharply Negative
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In many countries, views of the national economy are closely related to partisanship
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Opinions of the EU remain mostly favorable across 25 countries
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