Believe it or not, it's quite difficult to find any "official" or scholarly online dating statistics, especially any that are representative of 2011. There is a multitude of different dating sites, all with statistics of their own. In the future, compiling online dating statistics could be a research project of its own.
I pulled some from eSilverStrike Consulting Inc.'s datingsitesreviews.com and Mark Brooks' onlinepersonalwatch.com. Some I thought were worthy of mention for this project:
- There are 54 million singles in the United States. 5.5 million of those use online dating sites.
- 14,427 - Number of online dating and matchmaking enterprises in the United States in 2011
- 15,621 - Number of enterprises expected to exist in 2016
- One in four adults have used the internet to find a partner and another 38% are considering using online dating. Of those who had used online dating, 33.6% reported a short-term relationship, 16.2% said they had a long-term relationship, 8.9% said they had married or were in a defacto relationship, and 2.7% had children.
Corey T. Miller's dissertation on the Cultural Adaptation of Internet Dating highlights some statistics from a survey done by PEW Research Center in the last quarter of 2005 that used phone interviews with 2,315 adult subjects:
- 11% of all American internet-using adults—about 16 million people—say they have gone to an online dating website or other site where they can meet people online
- 43% of all online daters have gone on dates with people they met through the sites and 17% of them have entered long-term relationships or married their online dating partners
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