The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult American in two of the years.
Given are two charts comparing marriage and divorce rates in USA from 1970 to 2000, which also indicate the marital status in two seperate years-1970 and 2000.
According to the first chart, the marriage rate in USA leveled off at about 2.5 millions during the period from 1970 to 1980 and then declined gradually in the next 2 decades-from approximately 2.25 millions in 1990 to merely 2 millions in 2000. Meanwhile, the divorce rate in USA saw a marginal growth-from 1 million in 1970 to somewhere below 1.5 millions in 1980, before it saw a steady fall from about 1.1 millions in 1990 to exactly...
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