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 two bar graphs provide the statistics of marriages and divorces that happened over four decades starting from 1970,
together with
a second one that compared the marital status of adult Americans
between 1970 and 2000.
At a glance, it was observed that there was a gradual fall in the number of marriages between 1970 and 2000. The majority of the Americans
who were of age were married in both years, but the proportion of single adults was higher in 2000.
In 1970, there were two and a half million
marriages and one million
divorces. The marriage rate remained stable in 1980 but fell to 2 million
by the year 2000. The divorce rate rose to a peak in 1980 at nearly 1.5 million
and then
declined back to 1 million
marks from 1990 onwards.
Around 70% of Americans
remained married in 1970, but this
figure declined to just under sixty per cent by 2000. At the same time, the proportion of unmarried people and divorcees rose by about 10% in total. In contrast
, percentage of the widowed Americans
was slightly higher in 1970.Submitted by MS Tha on
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