The bar charts in the following pages are about marriage and divorce between 1970 and 2000 in the USA, and the comparison between the marital status of adult Americans from 1970 and 2000. Marital status here includes people who have never married one another, are married right now, did marry but now have lost their significant other, i.e ‘widowed’ and last but not least people who are divorced right now.
The number of marriages had it’s peak of 2.5 million in the 1970’s, and has been stable from 1970 until 1980, but then it viewed a stable decline in popularity. On the contrary, the number of divorces are fluctuating, first going up from 1970 to 1980, but then a dramatic decline in the periods of 1980 until 1990, and furthermore steadily declining from 1990 to 2000.
The marital status of an adult American in the 1970’s was mostly married, with some portion of the population never having married, and an insignificant percentage of the population being either widowed or divorced. However, in the 2000’s, the amount of adult Americans being currently married viewed a decline, and the adult Americans who hadn’t married ever at that time observed an increase when comparing to 1970. The portion of widowed adult Americans viewed a small decrease, and the percentage of currently divorced adult Americans at that period of 2000’s had skyrocketed when comparing to the period of 1970’s.