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 given column chart represents the data on the number of marriages and divorces in the United States of America from 1970 to 2000. The unit is based on millions of people. The second column chart demonstrates the percentages of marital status of adult Americans in 1970 and 2000. It can be clearly seen that

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the number of married people has slightly declined in 30

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, the rates of divorces have stayed mostly stable.

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, married grown-ups had the maximum percentage of marital status in both

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. Between 1970 and 1980, the number of married men and women remained the same at 2.5

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, and after that, there was a gradual decline by about half a

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every 10

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in the next two decades, reaching 2

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in 2000. In 1980, the digit of divorced people hit a peak at slightly under 1.5

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,

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for other

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it was almost 1

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. Regarding marital status, there were almost no divorces in 1970, with it marginally above 0%.

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, just about 70% of Americans remained in their marriage. In 2000, less than 10% of adults lost their spouse,

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20% never joined in marriage.