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[li]Marriages are becoming less common: in most countries the share of people getting married has fallen in recent decades. However, this is not true across all countries.[/li][li]Across most countries, people are marrying later in life.[/li][li]Cohabitation – couples living together who are not married – is becoming increasingly common.[/li][li]Single parenting is common and has increased in recent decades across the world.[/li][li]The Netherlands was the first country to legally recognise marriage for same-sex couples in 2000. Since then at least 30 countries have followed suit.[/li][li]There has been a general upward trend in divorce rates globally since the 1970s. But this pattern varies significantly country-to-country.[/li][li]Divorce rates are lower in younger cohorts.[/li][li]In rich countries with available data the average length of marriage before divorce has been relatively stable in recent decades, and in some cases it has even increased.[/li][/ul]
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Marriage, as a social institution, has been around for thousands of years.1 With things that are thousands of years old, it’s easy to assume that they can only change slowly. But developments since the middle of the 20th century show that this assumption is wrong: in many countries marriages are becoming less common, people are marrying later, unmarried couples are increasingly choosing to live together, and in many countries we are seeing a ‘decoupling’ of parenthood and marriage. Within the last decades the institution of marriage has changed more than in thousands of years before.
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[li]In 1920, shortly after the First World War, there were 12 marriages annually for every 1,000 people in the US. Marriages in the US then were almost twice as common as today.[/li][li]In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the rate fell sharply. 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.[/li][li]Marriage rates fell again in the 1950s and then bounced back in the 1960s.[/li][li]The long decline started in the 1970s. Since 1972, marriage rates in the US have fallen by almost 50%, and are currently at the lowest point in recorded history.[/li][li]Of those men who were born in 1940, about 83% were married by age 30. Among those born in 1980 only about 25% were married by age 30.[/li][li]Kenya has the HIGHEST rate of single parent families in the WORLD.[/li][/ul]
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/marriages-and-divorces#divorce-rates-increased-after-1970-in-recent-decades-the-trends-very-much-differ-between-countries