Almost 50 percent of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce or separation.

What is the current divorce rate in the United States?

2.9 persons per 1,000 people The current divorce rate in the US is 2.9 persons per 1,000 people. Overall, the rate of divorces in America is falling.

What is the divorce percentage in the US 2020?

What is the Current Divorce Rate? Today, some 39 percent of marriages in the United States are ending in divorce.

Why is there a 50% divorce rate?

How The Myth Began. It began in the Baby Boomer generation when people born in the post-World War II years began to marry and start families. Projections held that if two percent of them continued to divorce each year, over the ensuing decades, the numbers would reach 50% or even higher.