New 2021 data visualization shows parent mortality: 44.2% had lost at least one parent. Learn more in this America Counts story.





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Losing Our Parents

More than a quarter of the U.S. population in 2021 (26.4%) had lost both parents. 

Among those who had ever lost a parent, 50.7% had lost their mother and 69.2% their father by age 50, according to an analysis of recent estimates from the 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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A new data visualization shows at what age we lose our mothers and fathers and how that pattern varies by race and ethnicity.

It shows that approximately 30.8% of people in the United States have lost their biological mother, 39.8% have lost their biological father, and 44.2% have lost "at least one "parent.

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* Highlights for age, race and ethnicity, and comparisons between 2019-2021
* At what age people lost their parents
* The SIPP





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