The table shows the proportion of fifty-year-old adults who were never married over five decades in Japan. The chart represents the Japanese marriage and divorce rate from 1970 to 2016. Summarise the data by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided line graph illustrates

data

about 50-

year

-old

year

Japanese

marriage

and

divorce

rates

.

Overall

, it can be clearly seen that

marriage

rates

are moving in a downtrend,

while

divorce

rates

have been running in an uptrend since the

year

1970. As a general trend,

marriage

rates

in Japan are declining as

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divorce

rates

are rising

together with

50-

year

-old

adults

who have never been married.It is obvious that more

adults

in Japan are switching and remaining in a single lifestyle

To begin

, the percentage of

adults

who have never been married has increased continuously. Starting from 2% in the

year

1970, concluding with 15% in the

year

2010.

This

data

clearly indicates that, in the past 40 years from the

year

2010, the percentage of

adults

who have never been married increased by more than 7 times. Based on the

marriage

and

divorce

data

which represents the

rates

from the

year

1970 to 2016,

marriage

rates

started at 1,000,000

adults

in the

year

1970,

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and started

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to have a strong decline until the

year

2016, concluding the

data

with slightly more than 600,000

marriage

rates

.

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divorce

rates

which started in the same

year

at about 100,000

adults

, spiked at its peak of about 300,000

adults

in the

year

2000,

stopped

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and stopped

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at about 240,000 in the

year

2016.