The charts illustrates data about the merriage percentage of females and males in different ages in the UK from 1996 to 2008.
Overall, it is clear that in both 1996 and 2008, the most common age for marriage in the UK was between 25 and 34 for both genders. However, there was a clear trend toward later marriages in 2008 compared to 1996, with fewer people marrying at younger ages (under 25) and more opting to marry in their 30s and early 40s. Females consistently married at younger ages than males in both years.
Firstly, marriages in ages between 18 and 19 was not popular in neither 1996 nor in 2008. In 1996, the proportion of females who got married at ages 20-24 was 6%, while the figure for males was significantly lower at 2%. Also in 2008 the number of marital union of females was decreased for 3 percent, and similarly males declined to the 1%. The most popular ages to merriage in 1996 for womens is the 25-29 the percentage is 11%, meanwhile the mens is only 8%. Meanwhile, in 2008 number of that percentage remained stable.
Swcond, the matrimony in the 30-34 age brackets in 1996 was 7% of womens and 9% mens. In 2008 the percentage of men and women getting merriade slightly increased to the 11 and 8. The age groups between 35 and 39 of women done down to the 4 percent and men also droped to the 7% in 1996, while in 2008 women percentage stayed stable, but men rised to the 9%. At the merriage ages 40-44 in 1996 women percentage is 2 and men 5, but in 2008 the women percent stayed at 2% while menclimbed to the 7 percent.