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What percentage of American adults had no sexual partners in the past year?

23.9% of American adults had no sexual partners in the past year - about 24 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

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23.9

Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item PARTNERS (“How many sex partner's R had in last year”), counting responses 0=no partners. 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 = 2,041.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
21.22% to 26.58% (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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