Marriage
and Divorce
(Data are for U.S. in 2001)
Number
of marriages: 2,327,000
Marriage
rate: 8.4 per 1,000 total population
Divorce
rate: 4.0 per 1,000 population (46 reporting States and D.C.)
Source: Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for
2001
More
data
Marriage
and divorce by State Provisional number of marriages and divorces: Each Division
and State, December 2000 and
2002 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
March 25, 2004
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