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 illustrate the number of US matrimony and separation from 1970 to 2000, and the percentage of marital
status
in the USA in the
year
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1970 and 2000.
Overall
, it is noticeable marriages in the United States
outnumbered
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divorces throughout the entire period.
Furthermore
, married couples constituted the largest demographic within marital statuses at about 70 and 60
million
, in 1970 and 2000 respectively.
To begin
with, the number of matrimonies in the US stood at about 2.5
million
and
then
remained constant ten years later, before continuing to decline slightly to roughly 2
million
in the year 2000. Despite
this
, a
million
of
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divorced partners were observed in 1970 and
then
rose to reach a peak of just above 1.5
million
in the following decade.
Following
this
, it experienced a minimal increase to around a
million
in the next twenty years. Moving to the
status
of US marriage in 1970 and 2000, it is witnessed that there was a negligible rise in the single and divorced
status
by approximately 5%.
Conversely
, the
status
of marriage exhibited a moderate drop from 70% to 60%. The exception to
this
is the
status
of windows, remaining a little change at slightly below 10%.
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