Iowa kept up its years-long lead as the lowest-divorce state in 2016, but its rate, like the nation's, went up one point, to 0.13% from 0.12%.
Next were Louisiana and Illinois with 0.2%, then Massachusetts with 0.23% and South Carolina at 0.25%, and Wisconsin, North Dakota and Pennsylvania at 0.26%.
For highest divorce, Oklahoma beat the long-reigning national champion, Nevada, 0.44% to 0.43%. Oklahoma's has trended downward from 0.77% over the years, but Nevada's has fallen faster, from 1.14% in 1990.
These are per capita rates, i.e., compared to the entire population of all ages, whether married or not.
And they make more sense if you double them, because there are two people in every divorce and every marriage. So the U.S.'s "3.2 per 1,000" means 0.32% divorces-per-capita, but it means 0.64% of us got divorced in 2016. And in Iowa, 0.26%, or 0.88% in Oklahoma.
California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, and New Mexico did not count their divorces for 2016.
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reports:
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