US Statistics from 2024 that are both shocking and horrifying
By Rhoda Wilson on January 6, 2025
American author Michael Snyder sums up statistics from 2024 that are shocking. From the size of America’s national debt and the total of Americans’ household debt, to falling sperm counts and how much our brains are filling up with plastic.
44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
#1 Over 155 million votes were cast in the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump’s win in that election capped what many consider to be the greatest political comeback in US history.
#2 Nearly 11 billion dollars was spent during the 2024 election cycle. That is the most money ever spent on an election by a very wide margin.
#3 1.2 billion dollars was spent on political ads in the state of Pennsylvania alone.
#4 Before the election, one survey found that 79 per cent of Americans believed that the nation was on the wrong track.
#5 The US government is currently $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt.
#6 If our politicians keep spending money at the current rate, the US government will be 51 trillion dollars in debt four years from now.
#7 Total US household debt is nearing 18 trillion dollars.
#8 The number of shoplifting incidents per year in the United States is up 93 per cent compared to pre-pandemic levels.
#9 On a single day in December, Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the prison sentences of nearly 1,500 criminals and he issued full pardons to 39 others.
#10 The US Census Bureau says that 37 per cent of Americans are having trouble even paying their most basic bills.
#11 According to Bank of America, almost a third of all households “spend more than 95% of their disposable income on necessities such as housing costs, groceries and utility bills.”
#12 The price of orange juice is up 327 per cent over the last 3 years.
#13 The average household in Miami spends 327 dollars during a single trip to the grocery store.
#14 It now takes more than $100,000 a year for a typical US household to live “the American Dream” in all 50 states, and in 29 US states it takes more than $150,000 a year.
#15 For the average person, it now costs 4.4 million dollars to live “the American Dream” over the course of a lifetime.
#16 Thanks to rampant inflation, the average American now believes that it takes an income of $270,000 a year to be “financially successful.”
#17 Overall, US home prices are up more than 1,000 per cent since 1974.
#18 Only 10 per cent of Americans believe that becoming a homeowner is “easy or somewhat easy.”
#19 37 per cent of US cardholders have already maxed out at least one credit card.
#20 The amount of money that Americans owe on their credit cards is twice as large as the gross domestic product (“GDP”) of the 100 poorest nations on the entire planet combined.
#21 30 per cent of all student loan borrowers have “gone without food or medicine due to their monthly bills.”
#22 At one food bank in New Jersey, demand has actually quadrupled since the peak of the pandemic.
#23 An all-time record high 770,000 people are homeless in the United States, and that number grew by 18 per cent in just one year, which is also an all-time record high.
#24 We are being told that more than 3 million Americans are now living in their vehicles.
#25 The number of job openings in the United States has fallen by about 4 million since 2021.
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