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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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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There are two bar charts show the number of
marriages
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 and divorces in the USA from 1970 to 2000, and the marital
status
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 of adult Americans in 1970 and 2000.
Overall
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, the statistics for
marriages
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 in each decade were higher than divorces in the first diagram but the trend was a bit decreasing, and the married
status
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 was the highest level rather than other items in both years.
According to
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 the first bar chart,
it is clear that
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 the number of
marriages
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 in the first two decades was equal to 2.5
million
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.
Following
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this
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, in 1990 the value was around 2.4
million
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 and in 2000, the number of
marriages
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 was 2
million
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.
While
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 the trend of divorces had upward and downward movements it continued to decrease to 1
million
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.
Likewise
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,
this
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 amount in 1970 was the same. In the second diagram, it can be seen that the statistics for married
status
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 were the highest in both years within other types. In 1970 and 2000, these values were 70% and 60% respectively. Of course, in the Never Married and Divorced items, the rates in 1970 were under the values in 2000.
Besides
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, widowed
status
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 was a bit higher in 1970 rather than the percentage in 2000.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words marriages, status, million with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "diagram" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • marriage rate
  • divorce rate
  • marital status
  • adult Americans
  • trends
  • fluctuations
  • peak
  • nadir
  • comparisons
  • notable
  • patterns
  • factors
  • social factors
  • distribution
  • significant differences
  • anomalies
  • speculate
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