Given is a graph illustrating how the number of marriages changed in UK over a 50-year period from 1951 to 2001
Overall, it is clear that the popularity of remarriages showed a increase, while the figuress for all marriages and first marriages showed a downward trend.
Commerncing with the first marriages almost stayed unchanged over the thirty decades at neraly 350000 marriages, after which is steadily declined to about 270000 marriages in 2001. A similar trend can also be found in the all marriages. The figure for the number of all marriages fluctuated between 400000 and 45000, then it steadily declined to about 390000 marriage in 2001.
By contrast, the figure for the number of remarriages almost stayed unchanged over the thirty decades at neraly 150000 marriages, after which is steadily increased from 150000 to 210000 marriages in 1991 to 2001, approximately equaling that for the first marriages in 2001.
