This is the lowest per capita rate since 1967 -- also lower than the rate from 1944 to 1948 -- and the lowest absolute number of divorces -- 746,971 -- since 1970.*
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics has released these 2019 divorce and marriage numbers in "National marriage and divorce rate trends for 2000-2019."
(That's how far behind the reporting of these numbers typically runs -- about 18 months.)
These are per capita rates, i.e., compared to the entire population of all ages, whether married or not. These rates make more sense if you double them, because there are two people in every divorce. So "2.7 per 1,000" means 0.27% divorces-per-capita, but it means 0.54% of us got divorced in 2019.
This all was computed without any information from California, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, or New Mexico; those states did not count their divorces for 2019.
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* (Source: see "U.S. divorce and marriage totals and rates, 1867 to 2011".)
See also:
- 144 years of marriage and divorce in 1 chart, by Randy Olson
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2019 State-By-State Divorce Rates Released: Nevada 0.84%, Illinois 0.26%
- Chart of the per capita rates and absolute numbers of U.S. Marriages and Divorces, 1900-2012.
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