The table depicts the number of adults in Japan between 1970 and 2010, who by age fifty had yet to marry. The given charts illustrates the marriage and divorce rate for Japanese people from 1970 to 2016.
Overall, as the number of married couples significantly decreased over the period, the number of unmarried adults in Japan aged 50 increased, while the divorce rate rose.
According to the table, with a tiny portion of 50-year-old residents were unmarried in 1970 just only 2% and this number go up slightly in next 10 years with 4% of unmarried Japanese in 1980. In 1990, this number increase minimal higher than 3% in 1980, respectively. In next 10 years, with a particularly high rise between 1990 and 2000 when the number considerably increased by 5%. In 2010, this number was go up to 15%.
Regarding to the line chart, in 1970, the number of unmarried people increased from 1,000,000 and tended to decrease to 800,000 between 1980 and 2000, and this number continued to decrease to about 600,000 people in 2016. The number of unmarried people in 1970 was less than 200,000 people and this number increased to about 300,000 people in 2000 and it stay around 200,000 in 2016.