The provided chart presents the rate of unmarried women aged 55 years in Japan from 1970 to 2010. On the other hand, the graph indicates the ratio of wedded couples and separated couples in Japan over five decades.
It can be clearly seen that, over the past years, the population of adults who had not yet married is constantly growing. However, in Japan, the number of married couples is decreasing and the divorce rate is increasing.
To start with, at the beginning of the year, there is only a 2% rate of elderly women who did not have a partner. After one decade it grows twice the percentage and another ten more years, it steadily rises to 7%. On the last year 2010, it reaches their majority proportion to 15%.
On the contrary, in Japan at the year 1970 approximately 1000 people got married which is contrasting the divorced couple who only have more over 100. Moreover, as year passed wedded couples declined and reached their population to 600, and the separated one’s slightly climb on the year 2000 but steadily drop out by 2016.