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The crude divorce rate can give a general overview of marriage in an area, but it does not take people who cannot marry into account. For example, it would include young children, who are clearly not of marriageable age in its sample. In a place with large numbers of children or single adults, the crude divorce rate can seem low.
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In 1942, divorce was not widely accepted in the United States. In 1942, the annual divorce rate was 10.1 per 1,000 married women, [2] lower than the 2015 rate of 16.9 per 1,000 and much lower than the 1980 peak of nearly 23 per 1,000. [3] In 1916, Mr. Williams married Ms. Carrie Wyke in North Carolina and resided there until May 1940.
Mortality Statistics: Childhood, Infant and Perinatal Review of the Registrar General on Deaths in England and Wales, 2000, Series DH3 33, 2002. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Marriage and Divorce. General US survey information. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Survey of Divorce (link obsolete).
Native Americans have the second lowest marriage rate with 37.9%. Hispanics have a 45.1% marriage rate, with a 3.5% separation rate. [2] In the United States, the two ethnic groups with the highest marriage rates included Asians with 58.5% and Whites with 52.9%. Asians have the lowest rate of divorce among the main groups with 1.8%.
Compared to 2000, China's divorce rates have gone up substantially from a 0.96 crude divorce rate to 3.09 rate in 2020. [95] While China's divorce rate has been increasing since 2000, the highest recorded crude divorce rate in the past 20 years was in 2019 with 3.36 divorces. [95] However, since 2019, China's recorded divorce rate has gone down.
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Indeed, data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the divorce rate in the United States was 4 per 1,000 people in 2000, but the rate had dropped considerably down to 2.4 per ...