{"id":6427,"date":"2022-05-16T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T19:02:33","slug":"biggest-increase-in-the-marriage-rate-during-2020-occurred-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/05\/16\/6427\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Increase in the Marriage Rate During 2020 Occurred in&#8230; Montana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/wedding_couple.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6430\" width=\"243\" height=\"162\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>There were many social and health markers that were significantly disrupted in 2020 with the arrival of the pandemic.&nbsp; Increases in mortality and declines in people seeking medical care during 2020 are well-documented, as is the sharp decline in fertility.&nbsp;&nbsp; Employment levels and other economic indicators were greatly impacted, as was the workplace itself.&nbsp; Education at all levels was faced with unprecedented challenges in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another social marker greatly impacted by the pandemic was marriage in the United States.&nbsp; The number of marriages in the country declined 16.8% between 2019 and 2020, from 2,015,603 to 1,676,911\u00b9.&nbsp; The 2020 number of marriages is the lowest recorded in the U.S. since 1963\u00b2.&nbsp; The marriage rate (the number of marriages per 1,000 population) fell 16.4% from 2019 to 2020, from 6.1 marriages per 1,000 to 5.1 per 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS DIDN\u2019T HAPPEN AS MUCH IN 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the state level, the declines in marriage rates were widespread\u00b3 \u2013 46 states and the District of Columbia saw declines in marriage during 2020.&nbsp; The biggest declines occurred in the following states: Hawaii (47.9%), California (43.9%), New Mexico (43.3%), New York (37.5%) and Louisiana (33.3%).&nbsp; All the declines were statistically significant except for in three states:&nbsp; Idaho, South Dakota, and Wyoming, where declines were only 2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest marriage rate in the U.S. in 2020, as in years past, belonged to Nevada \u2013 but the rate was down 18.9% in that state from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were also four states in which the marriage rate <em>increased <\/em>in 2020: Montana (31.6%), Texas (8.2%), Alabama (7.5%) and Utah (3.7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the changes in 2020 may be partly due to reporting issues, which also became a factor during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State-by-state comparisons are available on the CDC\/NCHS web site at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/stats_of_the_states.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/stats_of_the_states.htm<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u00b9 CDC\/NCHS Vital Statistics System, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-20.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-20.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u00b2 CDC\/NCHS Vital Statistics System, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/mvsr\/supp\/mv43_12s.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/mvsr\/supp\/mv43_12s.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u00b3 CDC\/NCHS Vital Statistics System, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/state-marriage-rates-90-95-99-20.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/state-marriage-rates-90-95-99-20.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were many social and health markers that were significantly disrupted in 2020 with the arrival of the pandemic.&nbsp; Increases in mortality and declines in people seeking medical care during 2020 are well-documented, as is the sharp decline in fertility.&nbsp;&nbsp; Employment levels and other economic indicators were greatly impacted, as was the workplace itself.&nbsp; Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63660,63661],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}