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The chart below gives information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 to 2000 and the marital status of the adult American in two of the years

The chart below gives information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 to 2000 and the marital status of the adult American in two of the years
The bar chart illustrates the number of marriages and divorces in the
USA
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 and the
proportion
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 of marital
status
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 of adult Americans between 1970 and 2000. It can be seen that the number of marriages in the
USA
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have
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has
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 remained stable at 2.5
million
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 from 1970 to 1980 , and
then
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 the lowest dropped
2
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to 2
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million
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 in 2000. Compared to the divorce
in
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rate in
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 the
USA
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 had fluctuated slightly
sine
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since
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 1970, it started to decrease from 1
million
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 but peaked at 1.4
million
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at
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in
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 1980.
In addition
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, the divorce
declined
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rate declined
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 by 1.2
million
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 and 1
million
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, respectively
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, in
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in
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from
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 1990 to 2000.
However
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, the
proportion
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 of marital
status
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 of adults in America shows the highest
proportion
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 at 70 % in 1970 and 60 % in 2000, with married
status
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.
Also
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,
never
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apply
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never-married position had 15 % in 1970 and 20 % in 2000.
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, the divorced
status
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 in 1970 show at 3 % and in 2000 show 9%. In conclusion, the number of marriages and the
proportion
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 of
marital
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marriages
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 with married
status
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 in the
USA
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 between 1970 and 2000 were greater than the divorces.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words usa, proportion, status, million with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "shows" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 4 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Marriage rates
  • Divorce rates
  • Marital status
  • Adult Americans
  • Societal attitudes
  • Economic factors
  • Social acceptance
  • Legal changes
  • Cultural shifts
  • Stable marriages
  • Widowed
  • Never married
  • Family structures
  • Projections
  • Trends
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