The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Sample Answer 1:
The given bar graphs show data on the marriage and divorce rate in the USA from 1970 to 2000 and also show the marital statuses of the US citizens in these two years.

According to the first bat graph, the marriage rate in 1970 & 1980 was 2.5 million and this rate decreased to 2 million in the year 2000. On the contrary, the divorce rate in the USA was 1 million in 1970 and this rate increased to almost 1.5 million in 1980 and after that it kept decreased to around 1 million again in the year 2000.

From the second graph, we can observe that in 1970 70% of adults were married while less than 15% never got married. The percenatges of widowed and divorced people were less than 10% in this year. After 30 years, in 2000, the percentages of married population decreased by 10% and the percentage of people who either never got married or got divorced increased. 
 

Sample Answer 2:
The provided charts compare the rate of marriage and divorce and marital status of adults Americans between 1970 and 2000.
As can be observed, marriage in 1970 and 1980 remained unchanged, but after that it started falling. In 1970 and 1980, there were 2.5 million marriages, equally. However, it decreased to almost 2.3 million in 1990 and 2 million in 2000 respectively. Lowest divorce rate was recorded in 1970 and 2000 with 1 million marriages in both years. Highest divorce (1.4 million) occurred in 1990, which decreased significantly to 1.1 million in 1990.
It is noticeable that, in 1970, highest proportions of adult Americans, precisely 70%, were married. On the other hand, 59% were married in 2000. Lowest divorce percentage was recorded at 2% and 8% in 1970 and 2000 respectively in both years. Overall, number of people getting married had decreased with increased divorced rate in 2000 in the USA.


 

Sample Answer 3:
The given bar graphs show information about marriage and divorce rate of USA from 1970 to 2000 and also illustrate marital status in two years 1970 and 2000.

According to the first bar graph, as it can be seen clearly, initially marriage rate of USA was 2.5 million in year 1970 which remained constant after one decade and started receding slightly afterwards. Total marriage rate in USA remained exactly 2 million in year 2000 respectively.

On contrary, as is observed from bar chart, in 1970 divorce rate was one million which magnified to 1.4 million after a decade but again dropping trend can be seen. And finally divorce rate slumped to one million which was its initial state.

On the other hand, as is presented in another bar graph, in 1970 total adult people were married by 70% while 15 % never got married. Widowed and divorced status remained just under 10% in 1970 which dropped to 3% approximately in year 2000. Divorce status increased but remained under 10% but very close to 10%.