The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000 and the marital of adults Americans in two of the years

The bar charts illustrate the information about marriage and divorce rates in america from 1970 to 2000 and the marital status of adult people in america in a similar period.

Overall, there was a downward trend in the number of people getting married in the USA, while the figure for divorce was moderately changed. also, a majority of american adults got married and just a small number of them was divorce.

From 1970 to 1980, approximately 2.5 million couples registered their marriages, remaining unchanged in the following one decade. Then, the marriage rate decreased by 0.2 million in 1990 before levelling off to about 2 million in the final year. Meanwhile, the divorce rate commenced at 1 million in the initial year, increasing by 0.4 million in 1980. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of couples decided to part away was seen slightly change from 1.2 million to about 1 million.

Moving to the second chart, about 70% of adults in america were married in 1970 and it moderately decreased by about 10% in the following three decades. In contrast, just below 20% of american adults did not marry. also, both widowed and divorced people stood just below 10% from 1970 to 2000.