And the absolute number of divorces is the lowest in the century, except for 2016.
These are rates for 2017 -- that's how far behind the reporting of these numbers typically runs.
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reports:
Provisional U.S. marriage rates and divorce rates for 2017, and 2000-2016 rates
Divorce rates by State: 1990, 1995, and 1999-2017
Marriage rates by State: 1990, 1995, and 1999-2017
These are per capita rates, i.e., compared to the entire population of all ages, whether married or not.
These rates have always made more sense to me if you double them, because there are two people in every divorce and every marriage. So "2.9 per 1,000" means 0.29% divorces-per-capita, but it means 0.58% of us got divorced in 2017.
This was computed without any information from California,Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, or New Mexico; those states did not count their divorces for 2017.
See also this chart of the per capita rates and absolute numbers of U.S. Marriages and Divorces, 1900-2012.
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