Many people around the world have major concerns about made-up news and information. A median of more than eight-in-ten adults across 35 countries surveyed say it is a big problem in their country, ...

Little is known about the religious makeup of the state prison population. Government agencies routinely report on the gender, racial and ethnic composition of inmates in state and federal prisons ...

Data centers accounted for 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024. Their energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030.

Americans see politically motivated violence as on the rise in the United States. How we did this. Pew Research Center ...

In 2023, over 1.8 million Americans divorced. Additionally, a third of Americans who have ever been married have also experienced divorce.

Most adults across 25 countries are aware of AI, and people are generally more concerned than excited about its effects on daily life.

In both parties, the share that say the higher education system is going in the wrong direction has gone up by at least 10 percentage points since 2020.

A median of 34% of adults in 25 countries are mainly concerned about AI's growing use in daily life, while a median of 16% are mainly excited.

A median of 34% of adults in 25 countries have heard a lot about AI, with frequent internet users and younger people among the likeliest to say so.

Just over a quarter (26%) of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to ...

Most Americans continue to be concerned about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the United States. But there have been major shifts in partisan views since President Donald Trump retook ...

Meanwhile, roughly four-in-ten Americans say the news they get makes them feel angry (42%) or sad (38%) often or extremely often. And about a quarter say it makes them feel scared (27%) or confused ...