The bar graphs present figures showing the amounts of marriage and divorces during four decades from 1970 to 2000, alongside the proportions of adult Americans with different marital conditions in specified years 1970 and 2000.
Overall, it is clearly evident that marriage rate was always over that of divorces with a considerable margin during the period given, slowly declining, while divorce numbers remained same at the end. Meanwhile, married group of adults accounted a high of the chart in both 1970 and 2000.
Categorically speaking, marriages started a period at a peak of 2.5 million, which was far above divorces at 1 million. In following years, marriage numbers remained flat until 1980, and then levelled off at 1 million again; however, marriage figures slowly declined, witnessing a double of divorces in 2000.
Looking into marital status of adults in America, married portion of them accounted for a high of 70% in 1970, which saw a drop of just 10% in 2000, followed by never married people at around 20%. The number of divorced individuals climbed from a bottom of chart to just below 10%, whilst that of those widowed ranked between 0-10%.