7/4/2023 0 Comments The inn between marriageIn many rich countries there are statistical records going back several generations, allowing us to estimate marriage rates by age and year of birth. This chart looks at the change in marriages from a different angle and answers the question: How likely were people in different generations to be married by a given age? In China, Russia and Bangladesh, for example, marriages are more common today than a couple of decades ago. Over the period 1990 – 2010 there was a decline in marriage rates in the majority of countries around the world.īut there’s still a lot of cross-country variation around this general trend, and in some countries changes are going in the opposite direction. The UK and Australia, for example, have also seen marriage rates declining for decades, and are currently at the lowest point in recorded history.įor non-rich countries the data is sparse, but available estimates from Latin America, Africa and Asia suggest that the decline of marriages is not exclusive to rich countries. But in terms of changes over time, the trend looks similar for other rich countries. The chart also shows that in comparison to other rich countries, the US has had particularly high historical marriage rates. How did marriage rates change around the world? Since 1972, marriage rates in the US have fallen by almost 50%, and are currently at the lowest point in recorded history. The long decline started in the 1970s.Marriage rates fell again in the 1950s and then bounced back in the 1960s.In the 1930s marriages became again more common and in 1946 – the year after the Second World War ended – marriages reached a peak of 16.4 marriages per 1,000 people. ![]() ![]()
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