The charts depict the ratio of marriage and divorce among American adults within 4 years period from 1970 to 2000, and the comparison of marital status in the USA in the year 1970 and 2000.
Overal, the number of marriages in the USA had gradually decreased since 1980. While the amount of divorces are reasonably stable for the last 3 decades, it has seen a brief leap in the year 1980. The next chart presented the view of marital status of adult Americans who was married, widowed, divorced and never married. As shown in the data, in 1970 the percentage of married people dominated the whole population but was facing downward trend in 30 years, on the contrary, the proportion of grown-ups who was never married had increased, just like the divorced.
The first chart highlighted the declining trend of marriages over the years. Although the data had shown consistency in the first two decades, the number of marriages had declined by 500.000 cases in the year 2000. On the other hand, the ratio of divorces constantly at 1 million cases for the past years, except in the year 1980 when there was nearly 1,5 million cases.
Moving on to the next chart, the dominant cluster both in 1970 and 2000 has not changed. American married grown-ups overpowered those among the other categories. However, the bar chart reveals slight drop on the percentages between 1970 to 2000, from 70% to nearly 60% respectively. Meanwhile, report shows relatively moderate increase of less than 10% total of both divorced and adults who are never married.