WASHINGTON — Nearly three in four U.S. adults said they felt very tired or exhausted on at least some days in a three-month span in 2024, according to a National Center for Health Statistics report released this month, with frequent fatigue highest among women and adults under 35.

The findings, drawn from the 2024 National Health Interview Survey, put overall fatigue at 71.5 percent: 54.9 percent some days, 10.7 percent most days and 5.9 percent every day. Only 28.5 percent said they never felt that way. Researchers defined "frequent fatigue" as most days or every day. That group was 16.6 percent of adults, about one in six.

The survey asked how often people felt very tired or exhausted in the past three months. Authors Natalie A.E. Young, Julie D. Weeks and Nazik Elgaddal wrote that the work describes symptoms in the general population rather than tying them to a single diagnosis. "Despite the association with health and well-being, the frequency of fatigue symptoms in the general U.S. population is an underexplored........

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