Individual caregiving prevalence in the U.S. by age of recipient 2019

Published by Frédéric Michas, Jul 10, 2020

This statistic represents the individual caregiving prevalence in the United States as of 2019, sorted by the age of the recipient. As of 2019, the total individual caregiving prevalence amounted to 21.3 percent with an estimated number of 53 million U.S. citizens giving individual care.

Individual caregiving prevalence in the United States as of 2019, by age of recipient

Characteristic	Prevalence (in percent)	Estimated number of caregivers (in millions)
Overall	21.3	53
Only child recipients	2	5.1
Only adult recipients	15.6	38.9
Both adult and child recipients	3.6	9

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Release date

May 2020

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2019

Number of respondents

1,392 caregivers

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

* Estimate based on a nationally representative quantitative online survey with 1,392 caregivers aged 18 and older who cared for an adult in the 12 months prior to the time of the survey.

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