How did marriage rates change around the world? Since 1972, marriage rates in the US have fallen by almost 50%, and are currently at the lowest point in recorded history.
The long decline started in the 1970s. Marriage rates fell again in the 1950s and then bounced back in the 1960s. 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. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the rate fell sharply. Marriages in the US then were almost twice as common as today. In 1920, shortly after the First World War, there were 12 marriages annually for every 1,000 people in the US. This lets us see when the decline started, and trace the influence of social and economic changes during the process. Marriage rates in the US over the last centuryįor the US we have data on marriage rates going back to the start of the 20th century. You can change the selection of countries using the optionĭirectly in the interactive chart. It combines data from multiple sources, including statistical country offices and reports from the UN, Eurostat and the OECD. The chart here shows this trend for a selection of countries. 
The proportion of people who are getting married is going down in many countries across the world.
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