Marriages and divorces

The first bar chart compares marriages and divorces rate of American young people and the second bar chart gives information about the proportion of American adults based on marital status in 1970 and 2000.

It clearly seen that the number of American adults marriages declined gradually over the period. While the bigger number of married, unmarried people, and divorced people occurred in 2000 compared with in 1970.

According to the first bar graph, in 1970, the number of married adults in America was 2.5 times compared with the number of divorces (2.5 millions versus 1 million). The marriage rate remained stable until one decade later, meanwhile the divorces rate reached its peak at nearly 1.5 million in 1980. After 1980, the number of marriages declined gradually by 0.5 million in 2000, while the divorces rate also fell to 1 million in the same year. Consequently, the number of divorces was half of the number of marriages in 2000.

There was a slight drop in the proportion of married adults between 1970 and 2000, decreased approximately by 10%. Similarly, the slight decline also seen in the percentage of unmarried and divorced of American young people inclined by 10% in total between the period.