13. Marriage Statistics & Cohabitation Trends

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Percentage Who Marry

About 70% to 90% of U.S. adults marry at least once in their lifetime.

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Median Age at First Marriage

28.0 years for women and 29.8 years for men.

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Cohabitation Outcomes

  • At 2 Years: ~50% break up (40% dissolve, 60% transition to marriage).

  • At 5 Years: 90% of cohabiting relationships resolve into either marriage or breakup (10% remain cohabiting long-term)


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General Trends

Marriage is increasingly delayed, cohabitation has surged, and singlehood varies significantly by age and gender (e.g., 51% of young men ages 18–29 are single compared to 32% of young women).