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.

Out of the two charts given below the first one shows the record of

marriages

and

divorces

in the USA and the second graph shows the

percentage

of 4 categories related to the marital status of people in the USA. The data is recorded for 30

years

between 1970 to 2000. The first show indicates that both

divorces

and

marriages

decreased from 1980 onwards and

similarly

the second chart shows a decreasing trend in

marriages

and widowed individuals,

while

never married people and divorced people slightly increased during these 30

years

. If we look at the first graph, it displays that number of

marriages

was at its peak between 1970 and 1980 at the value of 2.5

million

but after that, it started decreasing and it declined to only 2

million

in the year 2000. Regarding

divorces

, the given information shows that the divorce rate was 1

million

in the year 1970 and

then

it jumped to all

time high

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value of about 1.5

million

but after that, it started declining and came back to 1

million

in the year 2000. In the second graph, the most prominent data is the

percentage

of married adults which decreased in 30

years

at the rate of almost 10%

while

the

percentage

of never married and adults showed an increase in the

percentage

of about 0.5 and 0.7 respectively.

Overall

, the 30

years

data

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US citizens showed that

marriages

and

divorces

decreased.