Ok, but what % got married at all?
86%
Men have a lower ever-married rate, but their marriages are more successful because they're less likely to marry someone with a previous marriage.
This is the 2012 data set, from the Census. You'd have to comb through the newer American Community Survey, to get something newer, but I think they aren't collecting that data, anymore. Can't believe I've never heard anyone talk about it. Seems important.
This is the data, but apparently statisticians project marriage rates to miraculously shoot up like a Joe Biden vote count at 3 a.m. https://m.primal.net/Hnje.jpg
They have to do that or the government would need to raise retirement contributions.
I don't follow the connection 🤔
Governments use marriage rate projections to calculate birth rates, and from there inflation and retirement costs.
Ah I see. I guess they still care about maintaining that illusion, even though contributing to government retirement schemes serves no purpose whatsoever.