63% of young US men are single, vs 34% of young women

The number

In a Pew Research Center survey of 6,034 US adults fielded July 5-17, 2022, 63% of men under 30 described themselves as single, compared with 34% of women in the same age group. Pew defined single broadly — not married, not living with a partner, and not in a committed romantic relationship — and only 50% of single men said they were looking for a relationship or dates. ^[1]

63% of men under 30 described themselves as single, compared with 34% of women in the same age group.

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What it does and doesn't establish

The figure is genuine, and young men really are more likely than young women to be unpartnered. What it does not establish is either recycled moral: it is a single self-reported snapshot with a broad definition of single, Pew's own earlier survey found a smaller 19-point gap, and part of the gap dissolves once women's slightly older partners are counted — so it proves neither an 80/20 dating market nor a men-only loneliness crisis. Full context: Are 63% of young men really single?