The bar charts compare the proportion of men and women getting married at six age groups in the UK in two different years,
Overall, there are more females decided to enter into a marriage than males before the age of thirty between 1996 and 2008. The marriage rate shows a decreasing trend in both genders by the time they are 30. It is clear that the majority of two genders tend to get married from 25 to 29 in both years. Meanwhile, the minority of two genders is more unlikely to get married in the youngest age group from 1996 to 2008.
In 1996, the percentage of people who get married under-19s touched the lowest point of 1% and 0% separately. There are the largest proportions of both men and women decided to get married between 25 and 29, with the figure of 13% and 9% respectively. In 2008, the males in the 30-34 age group who start a family peaked at 11% and went down by roughly 4% to 7%. Women in the 25-29 age group are most likely to marry, at about 11%, then experienced a stable decline to 3% but the percentage of males overlook their females counterparts. During the same period, the marriage rate between males and females in the 55-59 age group was very wildly at approximately 4%.