Jacob Ausubel | Pew Research Center

Jacob Ausubel is a research assistant focusing on religion at Pew Research Center. Previously, he was an intern at the Brookings Institution and a student fellow at the Penn Program on

Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Highly religious Americans are much more likely to see society in those terms, while nonreligious people tend to see more ambiguity.

The American Jewish population, like other religious groups, is in flux. Still, 88% of U.S. adults who were raised Jewish are still Jewish.

Some countries where COVID-19 has been deadliest – including the United States and Italy – have populations that skew considerably older than the global average.

In the United States, 27% of adults ages 60 and older live alone, compared with 16% of adults in the 130 countries and territories studied.

Globally, women are younger than their male partners. They also are more likely to age alone and to live in single-parent households.