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 given charts illustrate the

number

changing of marriage and divorce rates in the USA between 1970 and 2000, and the situation of

marital

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marriage

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in 1970 and 2000.

Overall

, the charts indicate that the

number

of marriages is higher than the

number

of divorces,

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and the

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percentage of married

people

is the highest.

1From

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1 From

the first chart, the

number

of marriages is approximately double

from

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the

number

of divorces.

However

, the

number

of marriages decreases from 2.5

million

to 2

million

.

2In

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2 In

contrast, the

number

of divorces first shows an upward trend from 1

million

to about 1.5

million

,

then

the

number

of

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them

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decreases to 1

million

. The second chart shows that the percentage of married

people

in 1970 and 2000 is the highest, at 70% and about 60%.3The trend

of

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it

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is the same as the widowed

people

.4The divorced and

never married

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never-married

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people

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decreasing trend, which are both below 20%.