The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 200, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of years.

The first bar chart illustrates the figures for divorced and married people in the USA by 30 years,

while

the second chart shows the percentage of the marital status of adult Americans in 1970 and 2000. It is worth mentioning that the number of marriages steadily decreased between 1970 and 2000,

while

the figures for divorced adults have been fluctuating until the end of the period. The majority of Americans were married in both years, but by 2000 proportions of single people increased remarkably. In the first chart, at the beginning of the

period

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there were 2.5

million

marriages in America and 1

million

divorces. After one decade the marriage stayed constant,

whereas

the divorce rate rose by 0.5

million

approximately before falling back to 1

million

in 2000.

However

, between the two

last

decades, the rate of marriages has been decreasing from 2.5 to 2 respectively. At the beginning of the term, the percentage of married American people was about 70% and it marginally dropped to 60% in 2000. In the end, widowed citizens of the USA were lesser than in 1970.

In contrast

, the proportion of single adults and divorcees experienced an increase of 10 % roughly.