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The bar charts below give the information about USA marriage and divorces rates between 1970 and 2000 and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the year.

The bar charts below give the information about USA marriage and divorces rates between 1970 and 2000 and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the year.
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The bar chart
illustrate
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 the number of
people
 get married and divorced in America from 1970 to 2000 and the marital status of adult Americans in 1970 and 2000.
Overall
, there was a slight decline in the number of wedding rates over the whole 30-year period,
while
 the
rate
 of separation remained relatively unchanged. It is noticeable that the percentage of adults
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get
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 married was the highest in the given year.
According to
 the first graph, the
amount
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number
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 of marriages in the USA remained stable at 2.5
million
people
,
whereas
 the period from 1970 to 2000 saw a significant increase in the
divorced
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rate
 from 1 to around 1.5
million
people
.
The
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For the
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 rest of the period, the figure for marriages fell slightly by around 0.4
million
people
. Divorces demonstrated a similar pattern with
rate
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the rate
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 declining to about 0.2
million
people
. In 2000, divorces at a haft the
rate
 of marriages. In terms of marital status, the proportion of
people
 in adulthood
get
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 married accounted for the highest in 1970 and 2000, at 70 % and 60 % respectively. There was a gradual increase in the
rate
 of adults
never
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who never
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 get married and
get
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getting
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 divorced. The figure for divorces tripled to around 9 % in 2000.
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