statistics on premarital sex in the USA

 According to multiple sources, premarital sex is nearly universal among Americans, including those who abstained from sex during their teenage years. A study published in Public Health Reports found that by age 44, 99% of respondents had had sex, and 95% had done so before marriage

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. Data from the National Survey of Family Growth indicate that in 2002, 77% of Americans had sex by age 20, and of that percent, 75% had premarital sex

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. In comparison, of women who turned 15 between 1964 and 1993, approximately 91% had premarital sex by age 30

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. The Guttmacher Institute reports that premarital sex has been nearly universal among Americans for decades

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. A study using data from the National Survey of Family Growth showed that women who don’t have premarital sex have just a 5% chance of divorce in the first five years of marriage, compared to those with two or more sex partners before marriage. Their risk is 20% to 25% in those first five years

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