The Craziest Stats About Dating in 2025

You can now practice flirting on Tinder using a robot.

Dating apps have these fascinating end-of-year events where they summarize all the data they’ve collected from their gazillion users and reflect on the state of dating—and humanity as a whole.

I went to a few of them, and I learned way more than I wanted about the challenges, opportunities, and trends shaping dating in 2025.

It’s hard to sugarcoat how big the challenges are for singles right now.

There are so many singles—42 percent of U.S. adults, to be exact—and with far more women than men in this category. There’s a clear supply and demand mismatch.

Singles have to contend with the fact that it’s nearly impossible to meet someone “in the wild” (even though everyone wants to); that people are getting worse at connecting (35 percent of Hinge daters say they don’t know how to start a deep conversation); that there’s a very high chance they’ll be ghosted (some studies show as many as 85 percent of singles have been); and that one in four young men believe AI girlfriends and boyfriends are the future (WTF!)

So many people don’t ask questions on first dates Hinge has named the category the Zero Questions (ZQ) Dater.

BUT there is also reason for hope. 84 percent of daters want to find a deep, romantic connection with someone. And when there’s a will, there’s a way, right?

Dating apps are also getting creative at solving some of these problems. One day soon men might get a prompt nudging them to ask out a woman when they’ve reached a certain point in a conversation.

Tinder, for example, already unveiled a bot that singles can use to practice flirting and asking one another out, and usage was far above expectations.

Read below for everything I learned about dating in 2025 (including the most popular emojis to use, singles’ biggest ick, and the most popular date activities.) The information comes from Hinge’s 2025 D.A.T.E. Report and Tinder’s Year in Swipe 2025.