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Senior Demographer at @PewResearch Also at https://t.co/qMIrbmrLja
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Dec 16, 2022 17 tweets 12 min read
Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!

bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-… First in a 🧵 of #2022TopTweets Image More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wa… Second in a 🧵 of #2022TopTweets Image
Dec 14, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Here is a 🧵 of Pew Research Center's striking findings from 2022
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022… Today, 41% of Americans say none of their purchases in a typical week are paid for using cash. This is up from 29% in 2018 and 24% in 2015. Image
Aug 31, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
NEW: By 2050, men projected to no longer outnumber women in the world
by Isabel Webb Carey and me
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022… Image In most countries, women already outnumber men. But globally, there are more men, due significantly to the male-heavy populations of India and China. Image
Aug 23, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read
A thread of key findings from new @pewresearch report on son preference & religion in India by @YunpingTong: pewresearch.org/religion/2022/…

India's sex ratio at birth has been moving toward balance in recent years Image The natural sex ratio at birth is about 105 males per 100 females.

2001: 130 boys born to Sikh mothers for every 100 girls. Male bias among Sikhs has since reduced to 110:100.

Male biased ratios declined among Hindus & Muslims.

Natural sex ratio at birth among Christians. Image
Jan 30, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Share of population born in another country
UAE 88%
Kuwait 76%
Qatar 65%
Singapore 46%
Saudi 37%
Jordan 33%
Switzerland 30%
Israel 24%
NZ 23%
Canada 21%
Germany 15%
US 14%
Italy 10%
Turkey 6%
Japan 2%

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019… Largest number of people who were born in another country
1 US
2 Saudi
3 Germany
4 Russia
5 UK
6 UAE
7 France
8 Canada
9 Australia
10 Spain
Dec 10, 2018 40 tweets 17 min read
Here's a thread of the most popular tweets I shared in 2018 We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A: #SharkWeek

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
Oct 8, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
How confidence in America's president changed from Obama to Trump
Germany 76🔻points
Sweden 76🔻
France 75🔻
Netherland 73🔻
Spain 68🔻
Canada 58🔻
Australia 52🔻
UK 51🔻
Japan 48🔻
Brazil 47🔻
S Korea 44🔻
Mexico 43🔻
Italy 41🔻

Israel 20🔺 pts
pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/app… Have no confidence in Trump
Spain 93%
Mexico 91
France 90
Germany 90
Greece 83
Sweden 82
Brazil 78
Tunisia 76
UK 70
Russia 69
Japan 66
Australia 66
Hungary 60
Poland 56
Israel 31
pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/tru…
Oct 1, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
BREAKING: New @pewresearch report on how the world sees Trump & America (thread)
pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/tru… NEW: Change in favorable views of US from end of Obama era to current Trump era
Mexico 🔻34 points
Netherlands 🔻31
Germany 🔻27
Canada 🔻26
Sweden 🔻25
France 🔻25
Italy🔻 20
Indonesia 🔻20
Brazil 🔻18
Spain 🔻17
UK 🔻11
Argentina 🔻11
Australia 🔻6

Kenya 🔺7
Russia 🔺 11 pts
Jun 13, 2018 11 tweets 4 min read
NEW REPORT: How and why religious commitment varies between young & old as well as across countries. This study reports on @pewresearch surveys from a record number of countries (106).

This is the start of a thread with key results
pewforum.org/2018/06/13/the… Young adults are less likely than older adults to pray daily in 71 countries
May 29, 2018 20 tweets 7 min read
NEW REPORT BASED ON 15 COUNTRY SURVEY:
Being Christian in Western Europe
pewforum.org/2018/05/29/bei… In most Western European countries, the majority of adults identify as Christian:
Portugal 83%
Italy 80%
Austria 80%
Ireland 80%
Finland 77%
Switzerland 75%
UK 73%
Germany 71%
Spain 66%
Denmark 65%
France 64%
Belgium 55%
Sweden 52%
Norway 51%
Netherland 41%
Dec 18, 2017 26 tweets 11 min read
This is the start of a new thread of even more top 2017 tweets from this feed. Thanks for sharing the first thread embedded below. Watch how income gains have shifted toward the richest Americans over time
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Dec 18, 2017 51 tweets 22 min read
Time to look back at 2017 - this is a thread of tweets I sent that generated the most engagement Each dot is a US adult's guess about the location of North Korea
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Dec 15, 2017 15 tweets 7 min read
Thread experiment - I'm going to use the new thread feature to compile a bunch of maps showing how populations are concentrated More than half of all Americans live in the blue counties
census.gov/library/storie…