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Marriage and Divorce number rates are given between 1970 to 2000, and that of the marital status in the two years. Summarize the information, reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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 bar chart provides information about marriage and divorce numbers and marital status, in the United States of America, from 1970 to 2000. The numbers are measured in millions and the time is measured with an interval of 10 years. Looking at both the charts, it was readily apparent that a downward trend could be seen for the number of marriages from 1980 onwards, and
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 for the number of divorces after peaking in 1980. Glancing over the
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 chart, it was observed that the marriage rates
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 has gone down, while the other marital status like never married and divorced has increased a bit. The number of people who were married was 2.5
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 from 1970 to 1980, while it went down to 2
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 by 2000, with an overall 20% decrease.
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, the divorce counts shot up by 40%, from 1
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 to 1.4
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 from 1970 to 1980. In the subsequent decades, it fell by 15% to 20%, settling at 1
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 by the Year 2000. The American marital status, on a comparative ,basis exhibited that the married and widowed categories fell, the former by 15% and the latter by 40%.
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,it is quite apparent that the single and divorced saw a dramatic increase to 20% and 9% respectively.

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