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US Adults With No Close Human Friendships, 2030

Horizon Dec 31, 2030 (1686 days)·4-model distribution·Repolled daily·Last update May 19, 2026

What percentage of US adults will report having no close human friendships by 2030?

Crene p50
13.75%

cross-model median

Confidence
LOW

spread ±5.93%

p5—p95 band
10.25% → 17.50%

90% interval

Models
Diverging

width ±7.25%

The three supporting readings tell you how much weight to put on p50: confidence reflects cross-model spread relative to scale, the p5—p95 band shows the 90% interval each model collectively places, models shows whether the four agree on shape.

Latest distribution

p5
10.25%
p25
12.00%
p50
13.75%
p75
15.50%
p95
17.50%

Driver decomposition

Each driver carries its own cross-model distribution. Drivers explain movement in the anchor distribution; they do not generate it.

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Belief trajectory

Cross-model percentile distribution over time. Outer band p5—p95, inner band p25—p75, line p50. Repolled daily at 06:35 server time.

8.93%12.90%16.88%20.85%24.82%May 19May 19
Consensus p50
Claude
GPT-4o
Gemini
Grok
p5–p95
p25–p75

Per-model distributions

Each model forecasts the quintile distribution independently. The Crene aggregate is the median of each percentile across these four models.

Claude
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
p5
12.50%
p25
14.00%
p50
15.50%
p75
17.00%
p95
19.00%
GPT-4o
gpt-4o-mini
p5
18.00%
p25
22.00%
p50
26.00%
p75
30.00%
p95
34.00%
Gemini
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
p5
8.00%
p25
10.00%
p50
12.00%
p75
14.00%
p95
16.00%
Grok
Grok
grok-4-fast-non-reasoning
p5
3.00%
p25
5.00%
p50
7.50%
p75
10.50%
p95
14.00%

Resolution

Resolved against the Survey Center on American Life annual survey question on number of close friends, using the percentage reporting zero close friends. Cross-referenced with Gallup Social Series and General Social Survey if available.

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