Marriage
and Divorce
(Data
are for U.S. for year indicated)
Number
of marriages: 2,230,000
Marriage
rate: 7.5 per 1,000 total population
Divorce
rate: 3.6 per 1,000 population (46 reporting States and D.C.)
Source: Births,
Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2005, Table A
More Data
Detailed
marriage and divorce Tables by state
Marriage
rates by state, 1990-2004
Divorce
rates by state, 1990-2004
Cohabitation,
Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the United States
Related
links
Change
in the reporting of marriage and divorce statistics
National
Survey of Family Growth
Where
to Write for Vital Records
U.S.
Census Bureau
This page last reviewed
October 31, 2007
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