From: Is the “seven-year itch” real?—a study on the changing divorce pattern in Chinese marriages
Before 1980 | 1980–1989 | 1990–1999 | 2000–2010 | All | |
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Married (%) | 75.4 | 89.7 | 92.9 | 96.7 | 86.9 |
Divorced (%) | 1.9 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
Widowed (%) | 22.7 | 5.5 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 9.5 |
Sample size | 5,447 | 4,519 | 3,532 | 2,974 | 16,472 |