Originally Posted by
garykung
Passports are not a necessity when you compare to State ID/DLs.
Per State Department's data, 154,065,148 Passports (book/card) were issued over the last 10 years, which is accounted for about 47% of today's estimated U.S. population.
That 47% number is a big overstatement of the actual percentage. A substantial proportion of those 154M US passports were valid for 5 years or less with some of the citizen/citizen’s parents/guardians getting the US passports more often than even just twice in ten years.
My passports are more a necessity than my state ID/DL, but for majority it’s the latter that is.