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. Write at least 150 words.

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of people who have been single their whole life until their fifties from 1970 to 2010 in percentages,

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the line chart shows the number, in thousands, of people who got into a marriage or a divorce from 1970 until 2016 in Japan.

Overall

, the lowest percentage of never-married individuals was in 1970 whilst the highest was in 2010 showing

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consistent increase throughout the years. From 1970 until 2016 the amount of marriages decreased significantly and the number of divorced couples increased slightly. From 1970 until 2010, there had been a stable increase in never-married people of about 3% each decade, starting from only 2% in 1970 up to 15% in 2010. There has been a steep decline in married inhabitants going from 1.000.000 in 1970 to 800.000 in 1980. For the following two decades, there was a slight fluctuation where the numbers remained around 800.000. From 2000 there was a graduate decrease in marriages to just over 600.000 in 2016.

In contrast

, there is a dramatic increase in divorces from 1990 to 2000, 180.000 and 300.000, respectively.