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 first chart illustrates the alteration in the number of marriages and divorces in the USA over a 30-year period from 1970 to 2000. The second chart demonstrates

proportion

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the proportion

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of American adults’ marital statuses in 1970 and 2000. Generally, the numbers of marriages are higher than the

divorces

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divorce

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rates over a 30-year period.

In addition

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in 1970 and 2000, the married people are more than 50

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per cent

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and

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indicator on the chart.

Although

during the first 10 years, the number of marriages remained constant at 2.5 billion, it decreased slightly from 1990 to 2000.

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,

divorces

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divorce

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rates have increased by almost half a million in 10 years.

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, it

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little declined in

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over

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10-year

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a 10-year

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period.

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The percentage

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of never married, widowed and divorced did not exceed 20

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per cent

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in two years.

Nevertheless

, The lowest of these three statuses is divorced and

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less than 10

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per cent

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. The number of widows is

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the same even though divorce

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very low in 1970.