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Marriage & Divorce
Divorce figures cover 45 reporting States and D.C.; marriage and divorce totals have different coverage. Do not divide divorces by marriages to estimate an individual marriage’s risk. Publication date is not supplied.
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Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2023
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Use the CDC published annual marriage count; no interpolation.
Divorce figures cover 45 reporting States and D.C.; marriage and divorce totals have different coverage. Do not divide divorces by marriages to estimate an individual marriage’s risk. Publication date is not supplied.
Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2023
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Use the CDC published annual divorce count with the stated reporting coverage.
Divorce figures cover 45 reporting States and D.C.; marriage and divorce totals have different coverage. Do not divide divorces by marriages to estimate an individual marriage’s risk. Publication date is not supplied.
READING THIS BOARD
Can annual divorces be divided by marriages to find a divorce risk?
Those annual events involve different groups of couples. Their ratio does not measure the chance that a newly married couple will divorce.
Make a fair comparison
Compare consistent geographic coverage and years. Event counts and population-based rates answer different questions.
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Marriages
Use the CDC published annual marriage count; no interpolation.
Divorce figures cover 45 reporting States and D.C.; marriage and divorce totals have different coverage. Do not divide divorces by marriages to estimate an individual marriage’s risk. Publication date is not supplied.
Divorces · reporting jurisdictions
Use the CDC published annual divorce count with the stated reporting coverage.
Divorce figures cover 45 reporting States and D.C.; marriage and divorce totals have different coverage. Do not divide divorces by marriages to estimate an individual marriage’s risk. Publication date is not supplied.
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Marriages
- Period
- 2023
- Source release date
- Not supplied
- Version
- Official source import · 2023
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.448Z
Divorces · reporting jurisdictions
- Period
- 2023
- Source release date
- Not supplied
- Version
- Official source import · 2023
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.448Z