Year: 2023
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The divorce rate in the U.S. has declined in recent decades.In 1990, 19 people per 1,000 currently married individuals divorced compared to 13 per 1,000 in 2021.The overall trend in the divorce rate masks substantial variation by age.The divorce rate for younger people has been on the decline since the 1990s (Kennedy and Ruggles, 2014) whereas the divorce rate among those 50 and older has more than doubled since 1990 (Brown and Lin, 2012).This family profile updates FP-21-16 and charts the divorce rates by age groups in 1990 and 2021 using U.S. Census data and the 2021 American Community Survey provided by IPUMS-USA.
Authors: Krista Westrick-Payne, I-Fen Lin
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4383334799