The bar charts below show the Marriage and Divorce Statistics for nine countries in 1981 and 1994. Write a short report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

The bar chart illustrates the

number

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of people who married and divorced in the USA, the

UK

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,

Japan

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, Finland,

Germany

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, France, Italy and

Denmark

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from 1981 to 1994.

Overall

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, it can be clearly seen that marriage

statistics

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declined in all countries except

Denmark

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it increased.

While

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the divorce statistic climbed except in the USA and

Denmark

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dropped

while

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Germany

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remained steady during the time period.

To begin

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, in the USA the

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of marriages and divorces was exactly the same, reaching a peak of approximately 10, 5

thousand

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and

then

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decreasing to 9000 by 1981 and 1994.

furthermore

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, marriage

statistics

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slightly declined in the

UK

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,

Japan

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, Finland,

Germany

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, France and Italy throughout the whole frame time.

In Contrast

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,

Denmark

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was the only Country which showed growth in their marriage Statistic of around 5

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in 1981 to 6,5

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in 1994 .

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, in 1981, the divorce

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in the

UK

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and

Japan

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was

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3.8 and 1.2

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respectively.

then

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rise to over 3000 in the

UK

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and in

Japan

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1,4

thousand

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by 1994.

As well as

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, in Finland, France and Italy the

number

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of divorces increased from 1981 to 1994. In

Germany

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, the

number

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of divorces

remain

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Steady

for

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at

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exactly 2

thousand

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in the whole time period.

Additionally

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, in

Denmark

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, the

statistics

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slowly Climbed between 1981 and 1994 from about 2,9 to 2,8

thousand

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.