The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.

The first bar chart gives an analysis of the

number

of divorces and marriages in the USA over a period of 30

years

from 1970 to 2000,

while

the

second

bar chart shows the marital status of American citizens in the

years

1970 and 2000. From the

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it is clear that

the

number

of marriages in that country showed a declining trend in the period under review,

while

the

number

of divorces over the given period remained more or less the same except in 1980 when it showed a hike.

This

decline in the

number

of

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is evident when data for the

years

1970 and 2000 are compared. It can be seen that the

number

of divorces in the USA from 1970 to 2000 remained

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million

except for the year 1980 when

this

figure

touched nearly one and a half

million

.

On the other hand

, the figures for marriages showed a downward trend with two and a half

million

couples getting married in 1970 to two

million

couples doing the same thirty

years

later. When the marital status of Americans is analysed, it can be seen that 70% of the adults were married in 1970

while

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was 60% in 2000. Meanwhile, in the year 2000, 20% of the adults remained single

while

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was 15% for the year 1970. It is

also

seen that the

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individuals were less than 5% in 1970,

while

in 2000

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was nearly double when compared to 1970.