> In that time, the divorce rate has shrunk from 4% to 2.5%. Correction: the 4.0 and 2.5 figures are per 1000 people, so 0.4% and 0.25% Note: it actually drop

> In that time, the divorce rate has shrunk from 4% to 2.5%. Correction: the 4.0 and 2.5 figures are per 1000 people, so 0.4% and 0.25% Note: it actually dropped a little further to 2.4 in 2022. To clarify, it's not that 0.24% of marriages end in divorce. The number is derived by dividing all divorces by all people (apparently excluding CA, HI, IN, MI, and NM). See: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/marriage-divorce.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/marriage-divorce.htm That's also not really the number most people care about, though, which is the percentage of marriages which end in divorce. Sadly, I had no luck finding definitive data on that. Rather, I've seen claims as high as >50% and some as low as 33% for first marriages, with subsequent marriages growing significantly from there, but even when it seems to come from a semi-reputable source like a well-known newspaper, the actual citations are usually more sketchy, so I'd take those figures with a wheelbarrow of salt.