A December 2014 story from The New York Times concluded that the divorce rate in the United States has fallen off. Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist, wrote that the divorce rate peaked in 1981 at 5.3 divorces per 1,000 people.
It's steadily fallen to 3.4 divorces per thousand in 2012 (although that excludes data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Minnesota), the latest data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the NCHS National Vital Statistics System.
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