Marriage and Divorce

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

• Number of marriages: 2,096,000
• Marriage rate: 6.8 per 1,000 total population
• Divorce rate: 3.6 per 1,000 population (44 reporting States and D.C.)

Sources: Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2009, table A [PDF - 159 KB]
National Marriage and Divorce Rate Trends (data shown are provisional 2010)

 

More Data

• Detailed marriage and divorce tables by state
• First Marriages in the United States: Data From the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth [PDF - 419 KB]
• First Premarital Cohabitation in the United States: 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth [PDF - 227 KB]