The graph illustrates trend development information about type of marriages and divorces in statistics data in the United Kingdom during fifty years. Despite the number of attempts to increase marriages, general tendency were a decrease of marriages and increase of divorces at the same time in a period of five decades from 1956 to 2006, regardless of growth the remarriages these years.
Importantly, that approximately in 1970 all marriages, including first marriages, reached a peak with almost 500 and 400 thousands of weddings. After that year till to 2006 amount of marriages were going down and reached the bottom below 300 thousands for all marriages and about 180 thousands for first marriages.
On the other hand, after 1970 the number of divorces and remarriages shows a small growth. In 2006 quantity of divorces was in the maximum of 150 thousands while during last three half decades number of remarriages were fluctuating between 100 and 120 thousands and came back eventually to the 100 thousands of remarriages for the starting point as it was in 1970.
The graph illustrates trend development information about type of
marriages
and
divorces
in statistics data in the United Kingdom during fifty years. Despite the number of attempts to increase
marriages
, general tendency were a decrease of
marriages
and increase of
divorces
at the same time in a period of five decades from 1956 to 2006, regardless of growth the remarriages these years.
Importantly
, that approximately in 1970 all
marriages
, including
first
marriages
, reached a peak with almost 500 and
400 thousands of
weddings. After that year till to 2006 amount of
marriages
were going down and reached the bottom below 300 thousands for all
marriages
and about 180 thousands for
first
marriages.
On the other hand
, after 1970 the number of
divorces
and remarriages
shows
a
small
growth. In 2006 quantity of
divorces
was in the maximum of 150 thousands while during last three half decades number of remarriages were fluctuating between 100 and 120 thousands and came back
eventually
to the
100 thousands of
remarriages for the starting point as it was in 1970.