Marriage and Divorce

• Number of marriages: 1,985,072
• Marriage rate: 6.0 per 1,000 total population
• Number of divorces: 689,308 (45 reporting States and D.C.)
• Divorce rate: 2.5 per 1,000 population (45 reporting States and D.C.)

Sources: National Marriage and Divorce Rate Trends for 2000-2021 [PDF – 116 KB] (data shown are provisional 2021)

• Marriage and divorce statistics
• National Survey of Family Growth
• Where to Write for Vital Records
• U.S. Census Bureau