In 2020, the marriage rate was down to 5.1 per 1,000 people, the data showed.
The rate started to climb the next year, and by 2022, the number of marriages had reached 6.2 per capita and over 2 million in a year, according to the report.
In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people.
Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.
By comparison, the rate of divorces in 2000 was 4 per 1,000, which means the current rate is a big decline from two decades earlier.
Being stuck in a home together during lockdown forced a lot of couples to face problems in their relationship head-on, Nelson said.
That might have caused additional strife, or it could have helped them lay better groundwork for a stable future, she added.
Changes over the past two decades may also have helped. Therapy has become more normalized, roles in marriages have become more flexible, and people are more used to talking openly about how they want their marriages to work, Nelson said. (CNN)
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