The table chart illustrates the percentage of adults who never had a marriage in five 10 years periods in Japan. The line graph shows the trends of marriage and divorce between 1970 and 2016.
Overall, the general trend in table graph is clear, what means, that number of people who were never married is gradually climbing. The other chart represents information about visible line based on number of people that had divorced and married, and these two curves are inversely proportional with increasing of the first and decreasing of the second accordingly.
In 1970 the exact percentage of alone, unmarried people was 2. Every decade the number was growing nearly at 2%. To 2010 year this number was achieved a highest level at 15%.
In 1970 there was 1000 marriages, then it was steadily falling until a small climb from 1990 to 2000, then the trend was similar to the beginning and ended with 600. The divorces trend in comparison to the previous is opposite. The graph started from around 100 and gradually rose 1990 to just under 200, then went a significant growth to 2000 year with about 300, and in the end there was no substantial changes, the graph went down slowly to just under 200 in 2016.