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.