Society · Facts & sources
4 sourced facts about civic participation -- voting, volunteering and community engagement, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Answerabout 50-60%
Turnout does swing from election to election, but this has been the typical range for decades.
Source: Wikipedia, United States midterm election (2020) en.wikipedia.org
Answermore than 158 million
That set a record for the most votes ever cast in a U.S. presidential election at the time.
Source: Wikipedia (2020 United States presidential election) (2020) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 75.8 million
That's roughly the population of a large European country, all volunteering in a single year.
Source: AmeriCorps (2023) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 35%
Jury service is a civic duty in many common-law countries, not just the United States.
Source: UK Ministry of Justice (via Wikipedia) (2016) en.wikipedia.org