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We used survey data drawn from over 53,000 middle-aged adults from the U.S. and 13 European nations from 2002 to 2020…. Our study makes clear that middle-aged Americans today are experiencing more loneliness than their peers in European nations. This coincides with existing evidence that mortality rates are rising for working-age adults in the U.S.