Band 5+: The table shows the proportion of fifty-year-old adults who were never married over five decades in Japan. The chart represents the Japanese marriage and divorce rate from 1970 to 2016. Summarise the data by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table illustrates the percentage of fifty-year-old adults who were never married over five decades in Japan. The chart depicts the Japanese marriage and divorce rate from 1970 to 2016

It is clear that while the divorces in Japan climb during this period, the opposite happens with the marriages in Japan. The number of 50-year-old adults who had never been married in 2010 topped the list.

The number of 50-year-old adults who had never been married in 1970 was slightly less than that of 1980, around 2%. The number of 50-year-old who had never been married in 1990 was much less than that of 2000, at 7% for the former and 12% for the latter. The number of 50-year-old adults who had never been married in 2010 ranked first, at 15%.

After decreasing sharply from 1970 to 1980, about 200,000; the marriages in Japan dropped gradually in 1990, approximately 50,000. The marriages in Japan increased slowly from 1990 to 200,000, roughly 50,000 before declining significantly in 2016, nearly 200,000. The divorces in Japan to fluctuate with an upward trend.