Loneliness
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An extract from: Public opinions and social trends, Great Britain: January 2025.
One in four adults (25%) reported feeling lonely ‘often or always’ or ‘some of the time’ (7% often or always; 18% some of the time). This has remained relatively stable since we first started collecting data in March 2020 (23%). A further one in four (24%) reported feeling lonely ‘occasionally’, and around one in two adults (49%) reported feeling lonely ‘hardly ever’ or ‘never’.
Younger adults consistently report higher levels of loneliness. Of adults aged 16 to 29 years, 4 in 10 (40%) reported feeling lonely ‘often or always’ or ‘some of the time’ compared with around 3 in 10 (29%) adults aged 30 to 49 years, 2 in 10 (17%) adults aged 50 to 69 years and 2 in 10 (17%) adults aged 70 years and over. Women (27%) reported feeling lonely often, always or some of the time more often than men (23%).
21 February 2025
- The above information is reprinted with kind permission from the Office for National Statist...
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