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United States

United States Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Childless women, aged 40-44 18% 1994 1st out of 5
Contraception use among married women > Any method 76.4% 2010 4th out of 24
Contraception use among married women > Any method > Percentage 76.4% 2010 4th out of 24
Contraception use among married women > Condom 11.8% 2010 5th out of 22
Marriageable age > Females 18 2014 36th out of 47
Marriageable age > Males 18 2014 37th out of 47
Marriages 2.12 million 2011 2nd out of 84
Marriages per thousand people 6.8 2011 27th out of 83
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 13 2011
Teen marriage rate > Men 1.5 2009 3rd out of 15
Teen marriage rate > Women 2.8 2009 13th out of 17
Total divorces 877,000 2011 2nd out of 71
Total divorces per thousand people 2.81 2011 8th out of 70
Women denied family planning 8% 2010 16th out of 20
Years spent single before marriage > Females 26.3 years 2000 8th out of 26

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Wikipedia: Marriageable age (Africa); Wikipedia: Marriageable age (South America); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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