The first bar chart demonstrates in the USA the number of marriages and divorces between 1970 and 2000 and the second chart shows the percentage of the marital status of adult Americans in 1970 and 2000.
Overall, marriages were higher than divorces over 30 years.Rates of marriages decreased slightly and divorces rose steadily then which remained unchanged at the end of the period.The percentages of married people were higher than the other status in both years.
The number of marriages was 2.5 million in 1970 and remained in 1980.In the next decades, the values fell gradually under 2.5 and 2 million, relatively, in 1990 and 2000.During the period, the number of divorces hovered between 1 and just below 1.5 million.
These were the highest records for married couples in two of the years.The proportion of people married was at just under , relatively, in 1970 and 2000.Rates of never married people increased approximately to .Fewer than 5% of adults were divorced in 1970, but this rose sharply to nearly 10 percent in 2000.Those widowed represented about 5%-%7 of adult Americans in both years.
