Americans’ increasing antisocial habits, explained in one chart |
Amid the country’s reckoning with loneliness and isolation has come a startling truth: Americans are spending far more time alone — and, according to a new finding from the 2025 World Happiness Report, we’re also dining alone, too.
The finding, released this week, relies on data from the American Time Use Survey and shows that in 2023 about one in four Americans ate all of their meals alone the previous day, an increase of 53 percent since 2003. The analysis also found that eating meals solo, including at home or out at a restaurant, has become more common in all age groups, but most pronounced among those under 35.
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“The extent to which one shares meals,” says Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,........