America in Data .

U.S. Unemployment Rate

4.2%

% · Sep 2026

How many people looking for work cannot find a job?

U.S. Underemployment Rate (U-6)

7.6%

% · Sep 2026

What does the headline jobs number leave out?

U.S. Prime-Age Employment Rate

80.7%

% · Sep 2026

How much of the working-age population has a job?

U.S. Labor-Force Participation

61.8%

% · Sep 2026

Who is working or actively looking for work?

U.S. Inflation Rate: CPI Trend

3.4%

% YoY · Aug 2026

Are prices rising more slowly, or actually falling?

U.S. Shelter Inflation: CPI Trend

3.0%

% YoY · Aug 2026

What does the shelter component say about housing costs?

U.S. Homeownership Rate

65.0%

% · Q2 2026

What share of occupied homes are owner occupied?

U.S. Poverty: Census SAIPE Estimate

12.1%

% · 2024

Which poverty measure are we looking at?

U.S. Family Income Inequality: Gini

0.460

Gini index · 2025

How evenly is family income distributed?

Economic strength

U.S. Real GDP Growth

2.2%

% annualized · Q2 2026

Is economic output growing after adjusting for inflation?

Economic strength

U.S. Real Median Household Income

$87,460

USD · 2025

How is the middle household’s income changing?

U.S. Life Expectancy: History & Data

78.9

years · 2024

What does national life expectancy actually measure?

U.S. Infant Mortality Rate

5.5

per 1,000 live births · 2024

How many infants die before their first birthday?

U.S. Maternal Mortality: Modeled Data

per 100,000 live births · 2023

How should we read a modeled maternal mortality estimate?

U.S. Suicide Mortality: Historical Data

15.6

per 100,000 people · 2021

What can a historical national suicide rate tell us?

U.S. Health Spending as Share of GDP

16.7%

% of GDP · 2023

How much of the economy goes to current healthcare?

U.S. Tuberculosis Incidence

3.2

per 100,000 people · 2024

How is estimated tuberculosis incidence changing?

Safety

U.S. Intentional Homicide Rate

5.8

per 100,000 people · 2023

Which definition of homicide does this series use?

Safety

U.S. Road-Traffic Mortality: WHO Estimate

12.7

per 100,000 people · 2019

What does a population-based traffic death rate capture?

U.S. Internet Use: National Data

94.7%

% of people · 2024

How many people use the internet?

U.S. Fixed Broadband Subscriptions

38.9

subscriptions per 100 people · 2024

What do subscriptions tell us about digital access?

U.S. Bachelor’s Degree Attainment

39.1%

% of adults 25+ · 2024

What share of adults have a bachelor’s degree or higher?

U.S. Research & Development Spending

3.4%

% of GDP · 2023

How much of the economy is invested in R&D?

U.S. PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposure

7.0

µg/m³ · 2023

What does average fine-particle exposure conceal?

U.S. Renewable Energy Share

10.9%

% of final energy · 2021

Is this electricity, or all final energy use?

U.S. Forest Area as Share of Land

33.9%

% of land · 2023

What does forest coverage tell us—and what does it miss?

U.S. CO₂ Emissions per Person

13.6

tonnes CO₂e per person · 2024

Whose emissions are counted in this per-person measure?

U.S. Federal Debt as Share of GDP

122.6%

% of GDP · Q1 2026

Which federal debt measure are we comparing?

U.S. Federal Deficit or Surplus

-5.8%

% of GDP · FY 2025

How large is the annual budget balance relative to GDP?

U.S. Federal Receipts as Share of GDP

17.0%

% of GDP · FY 2025

How much revenue does the federal government receive?

U.S. Federal Spending as Share of GDP

22.8%

% of GDP · FY 2025

What does federal spending buy—and how would we know?