Willingness to take investment risks in the U.S. 2021, by age of household head

Published by Statista Research Department, May 10, 2024
As of 2021, almost half of the U.S. households born between 1965 and 1980 (Generation X) were willing to take above-average or substantial investment risks. Furthermore, 41 percent of millennial and Generation Z respondents were willing to take investment risks.

Willingness to take above-average or substantial investment risks in the United States in 2021, by age of household's head

CharacteristicShare of respondents
Millennials and Generation Z 41%
Generation X 46%
Baby Boom generation 34%
Silent and GI generations 15%
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June 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Age is based on the age of the sole or co-decisionmaker for household saving and investing. This figure measures willingness to take investment risk for equivalent gain—for example, willingness to take above-average or substantial risk for above-average or substantial gain.

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