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What percentage of American adults agree they would feel lonely without the internet?

20.4% of American adults agree they would feel lonely without the internet - about 20 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

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20.4

Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item INTLNLY (“R would feel lonely without internet?”), counting responses 1=strongly agree, 2=agree. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 1,533.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
16.97% to 23.83% (derived from the published standard error)

NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data

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