This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States from October to November 2024. U.S. consumers were asked what their New Year's resolutions are. During the survey, 52 percent of the respondents who make New Year's resolutions said that one them is to save more money, making it the most popular New Year's resolution for 2025.

About 23 percent of Americans wanted to start 2022 by living healthier, which was the most popular New Year’s resolution. In addition, personal improvement or happiness was the year's resolution for 21 percent of Americans.

Resolution makers, resolution keepers?

While some might say that they do not need New Year’s Eve to finally turn their life around, making resolutions on December 31 is a common, well-liked tradition, especially in the Western world. They are usually meant to contain some kind of improvement or betterment of one’s conduct or life choices. However, these resolutions are not compulsive; only a small share of people who make them actually keep them, according to a Statista survey. They are more like a signal for a new start than an actual catalyst for change.

Traditional changes

While they signal a change of choices and behavior, New Year’s resolutions themselves hardly ever change: When comparing past resolutions for 2018 and 2019, for example, it’s obvious that people still just want to be healthy and happy, maybe broaden their horizons, and save up – in general, be a sensible, content adult. This is not only true for Americans – Italians also wish for stable finances and their own and loved ones’ health, as do South Koreans.

For 2025, the main New Year's resolution made by people in Germany was to spend more time with friends and family. Other resolutions that were high on the list included avoiding stress, exercising more, and eating more healthily.

This statistic shows the results of a Consumer Insights survey conducted in the United Kingdom from October to November 2024. UK consumers were asked what their New Year's resolutions are. During the survey, 48 percent of the respondents said that one of their New Year's resolutions is to save more money.

According to a December 2022 survey of the most popular New Year’s resolutions in the United Kingdom, 53 percent of respondents are planning on exercising more or improving their fitness in 2023. The second-most-popular responses, at 43 percent of respondents, were losing weight and improving diet.

A healthy lifestyle

The most popular New Year’s resolutions for 2023 in the UK were health related, specifically about fitness and diet. Both British women and men aim to improve their fitness - a trend that is likely to contribute to the growth of the gym, health, and fitness club market size in the country. Moreover, they are planning on following a healthier diet and losing weight. This habit was already popular among UK survey respondents in 2022, with over 60 percent of them trying actively to eat healthily and 30 percent of them trying to eat less meat.

Social media in the United Kingdom

Another popular New Year’s resolution in the UK is to spend less time on social media. In 2022, the number of social media users in the country amounted to around 62.7 million and was forecast to increase in the near future. In that same year, most people used social media every day, with TikTok recording the highest average monthly use time.

This statistic shows the results of a survey, conducted around a month after the welcoming of the year 2022 in the United States, on whether Americans stuck to their New Year's resolutions for 2022 so far, or not. During the survey, 22 percent of respondents said they stuck to some of the resolutions they made for 2022, while 11 percent said they have not kept them.

Analysis of ‘New Year's Resolutions’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/andrewmvd/new-years-resolutions on 28 January 2022.

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About this dataset

Another year comes to a close and with that an opportunity for new beginings - and New Year's Resolutions is an opportunity to do just that.

At the same time, in a 2014 report, 35% of participants who failed their New Year's Resolutions admitted they had unrealistic goals, 33% of participants did not keep track of their progress, and 23% forgot about them; about one in 10 respondents claimed they made too many resolutions. [1]

A 2007 study from the University of Bristol involving 3,000 people showed that 88% of those who set New Year resolutions fail, despite the fact that 52% of the study's participants were confident of success at the beginning. [2]

With this dataset, containing 5011 tweets of new year's resolutions, you can use the collective knowledge to improve your odds of success in your own resolutions!

How to use this dataset

• Apply Topic Modeling or Clustering to Identify Common Goals;
• Explore New Year's Resolutions and use this knowledge to make your own!

Note that this dataset uses ; as delimiter, due to free text fields containing variable amount of commas.

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Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the authors.

Citation

CrowdFlower.com [Internet]. Data for Everyone. Available from: https://www.crowdflower.com/data-for-everyone/.

Sources used in the description

[1] Hutchison, Michelle (29 December 2014). "Bunch of failures or just optimistic? finder.com.au New Year's Resolution Study shows New Year novelty fizzles fast - finder.com.au". finder.com.au. Retrieved 19 April 2018. [2] Lehrer, Jonah (December 26, 2009). "Blame It on the Brain". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660.

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License was not specified at source, yet data is public and free.

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Sup3rCC is downscaled Global Climate Model (GCM) data. The downscaling process was performed using a generative machine learning approach called sup3r: Super-Resolution for Renewable Energy Resource Data (linked below as "Sup3r GitHub Repo"). The data includes both historical and future weather years, although the historical years represent the historical climate, not the actual historical weather that we experienced. You cannot use Sup3rCC data to study historical weather events, although other sup3r datasets may be intended for this.

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Latest release: second-generation v0.2.2 Sup3rCC data with six GCMs across two climate scenarios (5x SSP2-4.5 and 1x SSP5-8.5). This version includes new generative models that have a larger effective receptive field for improved spatiotemporal weather dynamics over large-areas and improved diurnal shapes. This version also includes seasonal double-bias correction with Quantile Delta Mapping (QDM) at the 100km and 4km resolutions over a longer historical period (20-40 years) for greatly reduced historical climate bias. This release includes "sup3rcc_models_202412" that can be used with sup3r software v0.2.2 and phygnn v0.0.30 to reproduce this data release, and "sup3rcc_models_202507" that can be used with sup3r v0.2.3 and phygnn v0.0.31 with some additional non-ML performance improvements.

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The data set used for the validation of this map is available here.

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