The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, alld the marital status of adult Americalls in two of the years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisolls where relevant.

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first chart illustrates the change in the number of marriages and divorces in the US over a 30-year period from 1970. The

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chart compares the proportion of American

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marital statuses in two years, 1970 and 2000.

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, there was a clear downward trend of

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getting married in the US.

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a majority of adult Americans were married in both recorded years, there was a quite higher percentage of

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staying single in 2000. From 1970 to 1980, 2.5

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marriages were registered in America;

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number gradually decreased to 2

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by the year 2000.

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, the number of divorces filed was around 1

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in 1970 and

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reached a peak at almost 1.5

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a decade later. There had been since

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fewer divorces and the figure fell back to 1

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in 2000, exactly 50% of that of the marriages in the same year. The percentage of married American adults dropped from 70% in 1970 to around 60% in 2000.

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, there was a marginal decrease in the proportion of widowed

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. The figures for never-married

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and divorced ones experienced a slight rise, by around 8% for each category.