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 bar charts illustrate the statistics of US citizens about marriage and divorce from 1970 to 2000 and the wedding situations between 1970 and 2000.

Overall

, it can be clearly seen that there is a downward trend in Marriages,

while

there is a fluctuating tendency in Divorces over four years.

Besides

, the percentage of married people shows a maximum figure over two years.

According to

the first graph, Marriage figures in 1970 and 1980 displayed the same number of 2.5

million

, which was the highest in the given period. After that, there was a slight drop in 1990 presented at approximately 2.3

million

.

However

, there was the lowest point in 2000 exhibited at 2

million

.

Likewise

, Divorces in 1970 represented 1

million

, which was the same number as in 2000,

while

the highest number of Divorces was in 1980 shown as about 1.4

million

, followed by those in 1990 depicted as roughly 1.2

million

respectively. As seen in the second graph, the Married figure was the highest trend in both years, 70% in 1970 and 60% in 2000 orderly.

Whereas

, Divorced represented the lowest percentage, almost 2% in 1970 and 4% in 2000

consequently

.