(Daily Mail) – The marriage rate in the United States has plunged to its lowest level in recorded history as couples decide to forgo officially tying the knot and opt to live together to avoid financial stress instead. The US marriage rate fell six percent in 2018, according to government figures released Wednesday.
In 2018 there were 6.5 new unions formed for every 1,000 people, the lowest rate since the general government started to record data in 1867, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. ‘Millennials are in peak marriage years, their 20s and 30s, and it’s still dropping,’ Sally Curtin, the lead author of the report. ‘This is historic.’
The report shows that marriage rates started to steeply decline at the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s, then rebounded after World War II hitting a peak of 16.4 marriages per 1,000 people in 1946. The marriage rate steadily declined from 1982 to 2009 and remained nearly flat until it started to slowly increase in 2014. Marriage rates stabilized between 2009 to 2017 at a range between 6.8 and 7.0. READ MORE
