The people we spend time with changes throughout our life

8 August 2022

A breakdown of the time we spend with the people in our lives: parents, siblings, friends, partners, colleagues… and ourselves, put together by Our World in Data. The findings are based on surveys conducted between 2009 and 2019 in the United States.

As you age you tend to spend more time alone. This does not necessarily mean you’d be lonely though
Once you leave home the time spent with parents and siblings plummets
Once settled in a career, time spent with friends also decreases
In fact the only person you spend more time with, excluding children if you have any, is your partner