American homes have doubled in size since the 1950s, despite smaller families. Australia has the largest average home size, while Iraq has the largest household size. Scandinavian countries have the smallest household sizes. Japan has the smallest average house size.
The average size of American homes has more than doubled since the 1950s, despite the fact that the average family size has steadily declined. In the 1950s, the average home was about 1,000 square feet (about 90 square meters) and housed three or four people. Since then, the average home size has grown to about 2,500 square feet (about 230 square meters), and the average home sleeps two to three people.
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The global average household size is about five people per household, a number the United States hasn’t reached since the 1800s.
Americans don’t really have the cornered market for large homes: The nation with the largest homes in the world is Australia, with an average home size of about 2,600 square feet (about 245 square meters ). The country with the largest household size is Iraq, with an average of eight people per household, followed by Pakistan and Yemen, each with about seven people per household. (
Scandinavian countries tend to have the smallest household sizes, with an average of two people per household in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Europe’s smallest houses are found in the UK, where the average new family home is around 800 square feet (about 76 square meters). One of the developed countries with the smallest average house size is Japan, with an average size of 160-215 square feet (15-20 square meters)
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