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Here’s a stat that, to this day, I still can’t quite believe: the share of Americans who had a passport was 5% in 1990. According to data from 2023, that had risen to 48%. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a small town in rural southern Illinois and have lived in this part of the country my entire life, but there’s just no way I believe that half of Americans have a passport.