The line chart illustrates the number of marriages in UK between 1951 and 2001.
Overall, marital status of UK tend to decline within 50 years, specifically from 1951 to 2001. While remarriage situations are witnessed with increased in number, first marriages are downward trend.
Concerning all marriages in UK, this data fluctuated throughout the 50 years. It remain approximately 400,000 marriages between 1951 and 1961, then increase and peak at 450,000 in 1971. However, in the remaining 30 years, this figure went down rapidly and only reached 380,000 marriages in 2001.
In terms of first marriages, this was on the decrease as the figure for couple getting hitched the first time was recorded with a moderate growth from about 350,000 in 1951 to 360,000 in 1971. And then it fell dramatically to 250,000 marriages in 2001. By contrast, remarriages were on the increase as the number of couple divorcing and remarrying remained unchanged with almost 100,000 positions from 1951 to 1981 and tended to rise significantly to 200,000 marriages in the early two thousands years.