Marriage
and Divorce
(Data
are for U.S. in 2003)
Number
of marriages: 2,187,000
Marriage
rate: 7.5 per 1,000 total population
Divorce
rate: 3.8 per 1,000 population (46 reporting States and D.C.)
Source: Births,
Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2003
More
data
Marriage
and divorce by State Provisional
number of marriages and divorces:
Each Division and State, December 2002 and 2003, and cumulative figures,
table 3
Related
links
Change
in reporting of marriage and divorce statistics
National
Survey of Family Growth
Where
to Write for Vital Records
U.S.
Bureau of the Census
This page last reviewed
September 23, 2004
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