The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of Americans in two of the years.

The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of Americans in two of the years.
The bar graphs
illustrates
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the rates of marriage and divorce cases in 30 years period
as well as
the marital status in 1970 and 2000 in
United
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the United
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States of America.
Overall
, there were many marriage cases
throught
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through
throughout
the years compared to divorces, widowed and never married. In 1970, there were about 2,5
million
marriages which is more than two times the number of divorces during the same year which stood at 1
million
. The total of marriages
plateued
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plateaued
at almost 2,5
million
in 1980 and divorces increased to nearly 1,5
million
the same year. Marriage cases started to decrease
in
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1990 to 2000 with approximately 2,5
million
and 2
million
respectively.
Consequently
, the total number of married people in 1970 was 10% higher compared to 2000
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