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

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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%.