Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Americans have grown more divided on whether offensive content online is taken seriously enough and on which is more important online, free speech or feeling safe.
Many Americans are heading into the 2020 election with a sense of uncertainty that goes beyond their traditional concerns over who will win.
Few in 14 advanced countries have confidence in either Xi or Trump, and many are critical of how both countries have handled the coronavirus outbreak.
At least 20 nations preceded the U.S. in granting women the right to vote, according to an analysis of measures in 198 countries and territories.
Nationwide, 58% of Cuban registered voters say they affiliate with or lean toward the Republican Party, while 38% identify as or lean Democratic.
Before COVID-19, wages, job availability and health care costs mattered more than the stock market in Americans’ views of how the economy was doing.
More than half of foreign-born Latinos describe themselves using the name of their origin country, versus 39% among U.S.-born adult children of immigrants.
The share of Americans who say they know someone else who has been hospitalized or died due to COVID-19 has increased sharply since spring.
People in many countries support foreign companies building factories in their own nation. But fewer support foreign firms buying domestic ones.
Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
