"Number and percent of people age 15 and over by marital status and race/ethnicity, 1970-2002."																		

Race/ethnic	Marital status	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
US	Total	"141,194,095"	"155,641,850"	"168,198,011"	"182,315,934"	"191,792,611"	"193,519,401"	"195,243,256"	"197,254,151"	"200,769,868"	"202,731,981"	"204,624,551"	"207,234,609"	"209,290,835"	"211,700,000"	"213,800,000"	"216,000,000"	"221,600,000"
	%	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
	Never married	"31,751,256"	"37,274,992"	"43,236,396"	"47,743,657"	"50,223,132"	"51,301,691"	"51,691,070"	"52,308,674"	"54,862,093"	"54,978,890"	"56,218,905"	"57,387,897"	"58,303,399"	"59,431,909"	"60,016,308"	"61,139,993"	"63,157,222"
	%	22.49	23.95	25.71	26.19	26.19	26.51	26.48	26.52	27.33	27.12	27.47	27.69	27.86	28.07	28.07	28.31	28.50
	"Married, spouse present"	"90,153,894"	"95,077,020"	"97,530,615"	"102,228,759"	"106,512,559"	"106,453,983"	"107,024,499"	"108,398,940"	"108,503,267"	"109,887,507"	"109,334,625"	"109,331,120"	"110,619,174"	"111,700,000"	"113,000,000"	"113,600,000"	"115,900,000"
	%	63.85	61.09	57.99	56.07	55.54	55.01	54.82	54.95	54.04	54.2	53.43	52.76	52.85	52.76	52.85	52.59	52.30
	"Married, spouse absent"	"1,323,422"	"1,264,029"	"1,349,085"	"1,455,845"	"1,449,525"	"1,600,675"	"1,512,348"	"1,562,301"	"1,975,493"	"1,981,932"	"2,069,513"	"2,390,491"	"2,424,015"	"2,540,511"	"2,729,535"	"2,856,085"	"2,932,658"
	%	0.94	0.81	0.8	0.8	0.76	0.83	0.77	0.79	0.98	0.98	1.01	1.15	1.16	1.20	1.28	1.32	1.32
	Separated	"2,584,176"	"3,575,655"	"3,919,530"	"4,314,179"	"4,668,789"	"4,717,142"	"4,840,916"	"4,640,478"	"4,754,896"	"4,864,200"	"5,157,912"	"5,029,367"	"4,921,896"	"4,785,447"	"4,478,703"	"4,207,598"	"4,626,162"
	%	1.83	2.3	2.33	2.37	2.43	2.44	2.48	2.35	2.37	2.4	2.52	2.43	2.35	2.26	2.09	1.95	2.09
	Divorced	"4,107,109"	"6,530,467"	"9,711,443"	"13,089,264"	"15,128,290"	"15,771,693"	"16,321,240"	"16,661,232"	"17,379,288"	"17,653,202"	"18,288,115"	"19,347,068"	"19,423,675"	"19,717,567"	"19,881,398"	"20,378,040"	"20,968,963"
	%	2.91	4.2	5.77	7.18	7.89	8.15	8.36	8.45	8.66	8.71	8.94	9.34	9.28	9.31	9.30	9.43	9.46
	Widowed	"11,274,239"	"11,919,686"	"12,450,942"	"13,484,230"	"13,810,315"	"13,674,216"	"13,853,184"	"13,682,527"	"13,294,832"	"13,366,250"	"13,555,480"	"13,748,666"	"13,598,676"	"13,485,768"	"13,664,886"	"13,835,302"	"14,052,459"
	%	7.98	7.66	7.4	7.4	7.2	7.07	7.1	6.94	6.62	6.59	6.62	6.63	6.5	6.37	6.39	6.41	6.34

NH-white	Total	0	"130,438,674"	"138,827,116"	"145,638,885"	"149,472,574"	"150,148,296"	"150,753,245"	"151,709,653"	"152,044,640"	"153,489,516"	"152,907,074"	"153,581,420"	"154,204,914"	"155,200,000"	"155,900,000"	"156,600,000"	"158,300,000"
	%	0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100.0145644	100.0126337	100.0217535	99.97353569
	Never married	0	"29,509,826"	"33,302,308"	"34,625,432"	"35,040,302"	"35,283,407"	"35,277,383"	"35,477,350"	"36,188,602"	"36,433,069"	"36,086,008"	"36,642,372"	"37,348,484"	"37,900,213"	"38,179,730"	"38,821,034"	"38,807,264"
	%	0	22.62	23.99	23.77	23.44	23.5	23.4	23.39	23.8	23.74	23.6	23.86	24.22	24.42	24.49	24.79	24.52
	"Married, spouse present"	0	"82,979,989"	"84,357,853"	"86,545,376"	"88,236,664"	"88,311,947"	"88,375,765"	"89,080,567"	"88,356,990"	"89,328,330"	"88,415,302"	"87,392,813"	"87,524,061"	"88,132,553"	"88,500,977"	"88,245,929"	"89,096,085"
	%	0	63.62	60.76	59.42	59.03	58.82	58.62	58.72	58.11	58.2	57.82	56.9	56.76	56.79	56.77	56.35	56.28
	"Married, spouse absent"	0	"861,915"	"921,032"	"902,396"	"693,668"	"806,685"	"725,523"	"804,703"	"1,043,749"	"983,382"	"1,025,934"	"1,187,762"	"1,193,043"	"1,239,408"	"1,354,710"	"1,269,384"	"1,250,283"
	%	0	0.66	0.66	0.62	0.46	0.54	0.48	0.53	0.69	0.64	0.67	0.77	0.77	0.80	0.87	0.81	0.79
	Separated	0	"1,842,056"	"2,114,694"	"2,310,738"	"2,530,651"	"2,556,968"	"2,669,786"	"2,558,511"	"2,466,464"	"2,553,209"	"2,629,502"	"2,556,079"	"2,692,682"	"2,531,562"	"2,200,944"	"2,204,894"	"2,331,757"
	%	0	1.41	1.52	1.59	1.69	1.7	1.77	1.69	1.62	1.66	1.72	1.66	1.75	1.63	1.41	1.41	1.47
	Divorced	0	"5,245,211"	"7,764,224"	"10,387,201"	"11,757,249"	"12,207,464"	"12,641,480"	"12,938,411"	"13,389,434"	"13,531,841"	"13,908,015"	"14,818,971"	"14,713,599"	"14,885,799"	"15,006,168"	"15,340,053"	"15,783,502"
	%	0	4.02	5.59	7.13	7.87	8.13	8.39	8.53	8.81	8.82	9.1	9.65	9.54	9.59	9.63	9.80	9.97
	Widowed	0	"9,999,676"	"10,367,004"	"10,867,741"	"11,214,041"	"10,981,825"	"11,063,308"	"10,850,111"	"10,599,402"	"10,659,685"	"10,842,314"	"10,983,424"	"10,733,044"	"10,533,069"	"10,677,167"	"10,752,772"	"10,989,216"
	%	0	7.67	7.47	7.46	7.5	7.31	7.34	7.15	6.97	6.94	7.09	7.15	6.96	6.79	6.85	6.87	6.94

Black	Total	"13,915,205"	"15,971,786"	"17,895,511"	"20,233,733"	"21,913,822"	"22,198,189"	"22,540,929"	"22,937,478"	"23,499,377"	"23,922,002"	"24,214,045"	"24,626,987"	"24,997,953"	"25,446,449"	"25,854,707"	"26,203,577"	"26,171,203"
	%	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100.0000038
	Never married	"3,995,800"	"5,134,552"	"6,529,773"	"8,057,033"	"8,735,482"	"9,199,917"	"9,419,444"	"9,616,549"	"10,190,300"	"10,280,890"	"10,566,462"	"10,721,000"	"10,880,003"	"11,089,590"	"11,253,295"	"11,378,656"	"11,350,007"
	%	28.72	32.15	36.49	39.82	39.86	41.44	41.79	41.93	43.36	42.98	43.64	43.53	43.52	43.58	43.53	43.42	43.37
	"Married, spouse present"	"6,692,418"	"6,737,859"	"6,752,762"	"7,014,827"	"7,619,188"	"7,312,874"	"7,308,822"	"7,584,478"	"7,567,328"	"7,809,880"	"7,495,902"	"7,763,633"	"8,051,042"	"8,133,995"	"8,391,418"	"8,636,213"	"8,640,999"
	%	48.09	42.19	37.73	34.67	34.77	32.94	32.42	33.07	32.2	32.65	30.96	31.52	32.21	31.97	32.46	32.96	33.02
	"Married, spouse absent"	"235,714"	"193,949"	"199,573"	"204,160"	"211,881"	"265,436"	"207,471"	"213,430"	"290,769"	"332,828"	"382,060"	"377,284"	"392,445"	"379,621"	"430,125"	"501,911"	"524,373"
	%	1.69	1.21	1.12	1.01	0.97	1.2	0.92	0.93	1.24	1.39	1.58	1.53	1.57	1.49	1.66	1.92	2.00
	Separated	"1,125,693"	"1,466,679"	"1,444,616"	"1,399,146"	"1,471,145"	"1,423,067"	"1,499,569"	"1,452,356"	"1,486,357"	"1,431,904"	"1,583,949"	"1,539,175"	"1,214,282"	"1,249,645"	"1,306,670"	"1,110,488"	"1,251,772"
	%	8.09	9.18	8.07	6.91	6.71	6.41	6.65	6.33	6.33	5.99	6.54	6.25	4.86	4.91	5.05	4.24	4.78
	Divorced	"519,431"	"919,284"	"1,372,569"	"1,764,196"	"2,145,994"	"2,222,041"	"2,267,296"	"2,243,865"	"2,347,399"	"2,376,650"	"2,578,611"	"2,579,504"	"2,707,886"	"2,807,950"	"2,777,793"	"2,870,178"	"2,730,597"
	%	3.73	5.76	7.67	8.72	9.79	10.01	10.06	9.78	9.99	9.93	10.65	10.47	10.83	11.03	10.74	10.95	10.43
	Widowed	"1,346,150"	"1,519,462"	"1,596,216"	"1,794,370"	"1,730,131"	"1,774,854"	"1,838,328"	"1,826,800"	"1,617,224"	"1,689,849"	"1,607,062"	"1,646,392"	"1,752,295"	"1,785,648"	"1,695,406"	"1,706,131"	"1,673,456"
	%	9.67	9.51	8.92	8.87	7.9	8	8.16	7.96	6.88	7.06	6.64	6.69	7.01	7.02	6.56	6.51	6.39

Hispanic	Total	0	"7,057,330"	"8,562,280"	"11,775,933"	"14,576,438"	"15,060,852"	"15,543,134"	"16,021,570"	"18,453,458"	"18,987,786"	"19,580,055"	"20,699,545"	"21,429,552"	"21,995,131"	"22,793,391"	"23,519,247"	"26,350,850"
	%	0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
	Never married	0	"2,026,003"	"2,574,083"	"3,675,859"	"4,691,126"	"4,905,773"	"5,113,208"	"5,247,561"	"6,416,849"	"6,384,210"	"6,892,920"	"7,404,265"	"7,441,801"	"7,458,400"	"7,557,515"	"8,000,082"	"9,563,322"
	%	0	28.71	30.06	31.22	32.18	32.57	32.9	32.75	34.77	33.62	35.2	35.77	34.73	33.91	33.16	34.02	36.29
	"Married, spouse present"	0	"4,026,905"	"4,720,066"	"6,035,749"	"7,362,585"	"7,484,002"	"7,749,107"	"8,045,136"	"8,799,167"	"9,149,148"	"9,239,690"	"9,729,449"	"10,221,253"	"10,605,832"	"11,221,005"	"11,377,862"	"12,432,057"
	%	0	57.06	55.13	51.25	50.51	49.69	49.86	50.21	47.68	48.18	47.19	47	47.7	48.22	49.23	48.38	47.18
	"Married, spouse absent"	0	"147,841"	"162,409"	"256,135"	"442,924"	"418,784"	"388,920"	"402,295"	"468,510"	"530,369"	"516,685"	"615,754"	"602,594"	"676,834"	"665,672"	"814,712"	"848,173"
	%	0	2.09	1.9	2.18	3.04	2.78	2.5	2.51	2.54	2.79	2.64	2.97	2.81	3.08	2.92	3.46	3.22
	Separated	0	"244,493"	"322,379"	"525,932"	"579,324"	"630,649"	"598,872"	"579,940"	"734,993"	"795,625"	"826,393"	"784,840"	"882,658"	"886,337"	"845,405"	"769,224"	"893,558"
	%	0	3.46	3.77	4.47	3.97	4.19	3.85	3.62	3.98	4.19	4.22	3.79	4.12	4.03	3.71	3.27	3.39
	Divorced	0	"315,485"	"445,958"	"728,787"	"952,299"	"1,020,864"	"1,053,620"	"1,095,041"	"1,279,185"	"1,389,886"	"1,393,972"	"1,444,032"	"1,532,535"	"1,551,403"	"1,623,199"	"1,637,424"	"1,739,050"
	%	0	4.47	5.21	6.19	6.53	6.78	6.78	6.83	6.93	7.32	7.12	6.98	7.15	7.05	7.12	6.96	6.60
	Widowed	0	"296,603"	"337,385"	"553,470"	"548,180"	"600,779"	"639,407"	"651,597"	"754,753"	"738,548"	"710,396"	"721,205"	"748,712"	"816,325"	"880,595"	"919,943"	"874,690"
	%	0	4.2	3.94	4.7	3.76	3.99	4.11	4.07	4.09	3.89	3.63	3.48	3.49	3.71	3.86	3.91	3.32

Asian	Total	0	0	0	0	"4,965,408"	"5,247,445"	"5,470,329"	"5,480,870"	"5,694,884"	"5,235,149"	"7,221,722"	"7,578,736"	"7,883,901"	"8,298,824"	"8,414,811"	"8,721,970"	"9,842,144"
	%	0	0	0	0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100.000012	100	100	100
	Never married	0	0	0	0	"1,499,400"	"1,633,042"	"1,661,898"	"1,673,776"	"1,757,396"	"1,597,700"	"2,512,079"	"2,495,869"	"2,484,032"	"2,828,805"	"2,787,315"	"2,685,157"	"3,233,559"
	%	0	0	0	0	30.2	31.12	30.38	30.54	30.86	30.52	34.79	32.93	31.51	34.09	33.12	30.79	32.85
	"Married, spouse present"	0	0	0	0	"2,871,864"	"2,958,589"	"3,052,931"	"3,141,588"	"3,248,956"	"2,993,427"	"3,866,865"	"4,071,806"	"4,391,742"	"4,409,666"	"4,510,776"	"4,875,436"	"5,245,708"
	%	0	0	0	0	57.84	56.38	55.81	57.32	57.05	57.18	53.54	53.73	55.71	53.14	53.61	55.90	53.30
	"Married, spouse absent"	0	0	0	0	"105,648"	"120,397"	"189,684"	"143,596"	"163,790"	"131,207"	"148,708"	"211,764"	"243,577"	"258,007"	"283,548"	"260,469"	"319,673"
	%	0	0	0	0	2.13	2.29	3.47	2.62	2.88	2.51	2.06	2.79	3.09	3.11	3.37	2.99	3.25
	Separated	0	0	0	0	"74,151"	"60,049"	"59,167"	"39,487"	"57,442"	"49,182"	"102,741"	"137,372"	"112,267"	"116,334"	"136,925"	"123,679"	"137,177"
	%	0	0	0	0	1.49	1.14	1.08	0.72	1.01	0.94	1.42	1.81	1.42	1.40	1.63	1.42	1.39
	Divorced	0	0	0	0	"157,341"	"209,992"	"240,555"	"207,682"	"204,384"	"231,116"	"273,443"	"328,918"	"341,653"	"394,545"	"359,650"	"401,343"	"488,205"
	%	0	0	0	0	3.17	4	4.4	3.79	3.59	4.41	3.79	4.34	4.33	4.75	4.27	4.60	4.96
	Widowed	0	0	0	0	"257,004"	"265,376"	"266,094"	"274,741"	"262,916"	"232,518"	"317,885"	"333,008"	"310,630"	"291,468"	"336,597"	"375,886"	"417,822"
	%	0	0	0	0	5.18	5.06	4.86	5.01	4.62	4.44	4.4	4.39	3.94	3.51	4.00	4.31	4.25

"Source: AmeriStat, analysis of data from the 1970-2002 Current Population Survey (March Supplement)."