{"id":283379,"date":"2025-12-22T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=short-read&p=283379"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:51:59","slug":"younger-americans-are-less-likely-than-others-to-support-an-active-role-for-the-us-in-world-affairs","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/12\/22\/younger-americans-are-less-likely-than-others-to-support-an-active-role-for-the-us-in-world-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Younger Americans are less likely than others to support an active role for the U.S. in world affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As has been the case in recent years, younger adults continue to be much less likely than older adults to place importance on the United States taking an active role on the world stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand how the United States public views the country\u2019s role in international relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this analysis, we surveyed 10,357 U.S. adults from Nov. 17 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, presidential vote (among voters) and other factors. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions used for this analysis<\/a>, the topline<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

How important is it for the U.S. to be active internationally?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Younger adults are much less likely than older adults to say U.S. should take an active role in world affairs<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted Nov. 17-30, 2025.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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