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.

There are two bar charts show the number of

marriages

and divorces in the USA from 1970 to 2000, and the marital

status

of adult Americans in 1970 and 2000.

Overall

, the statistics for

marriages

in each decade were higher than divorces in the first diagram but the trend was a bit decreasing, and the married

status

was the highest level rather than other items in both years.

According to

the first bar chart,

it is clear that

the number of

marriages

in the first two decades was equal to 2.5

million

.

Following

this

, in 1990 the value was around 2.4

million

and in 2000, the number of

marriages

was 2

million

.

While

the trend of divorces had upward and downward movements it continued to decrease to 1

million

.

Likewise

,

this

amount in 1970 was the same. In the second diagram, it can be seen that the statistics for married

status

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

, widowed

status

was a bit higher in 1970 rather than the percentage in 2000.