Long description

This line chart shows the percentage of the population marrying between 1945 and 2019. There are many slight rises and falls each year, but the numbers remain broadly around 6% in the 1950s and 1960s, and peak around 7% in the early 1970s. The percentage then drops gradually, by roughly 1% each decade. It reaches 2% in the 2010s, at which it appears to remain level.