Apr 16, 2026 · Discover how consumers over 50 drive 53% of US spending with high-tech adoption. Explore their healthcare priorities, online behaviors, and 2025 market strategies.

This article examines the spending patterns of households with a reference person 2 age 55 and older. Age 55 was chosen because the article focuses on spending changes that occur as household …

Older cohorts tend to hold more assets, and they may have increased their spending partly in response to rising equities over 2024 and 2025. Absent a correction in equity markets, we expect older …

Dec 19, 2019 · There are more than 117 million Americans 50 and older — 35 percent of the total population — and the age bracket is projected to grow to 132 million people over the next 10 years …

Apr 11, 2024 · People 50 and older play an essential and growing role in driving global economic activity and business growth as consumers and workers. In 2020, they accounted for half of consumer …

Feb 12, 2026 · More than 70% of all the wealth in the country is held by those over 55, per Federal Reserve data. They're spending a lot of money. More than 45% of consumer spending now comes …

It’s made the elderly a strong spending block, the WSJ said, with consumers 65 and up making up 22% of spending last year, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department.

Nov 17, 2025 · Average Spending by Age for Those 55 and Up: How Do You Stack Up? Find out if you're overspending. We compare average spending across the ages for major categories, from …

Apr 1, 2026 · American retirees receive over twice as much in total federal outlays as working-age adults and six times more than children and young adults. These ratios are even larger on a per-capita …

The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive briefing on the financial characteristics and challenges of older Americans. We are particularly interested in understanding age-related …