COVID Cut Hawaii Marriage Rate 48%
The number of marriages in the U.S. in 2020 was the lowest recorded in over half a century, according to data released Tuesday by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The U.S. saw 1,676,911 marriages in 2020, a drop of 16.8 percent from the 2,015,603 recorded in 2019. The number of marriages was the lowest since 1963, when about 1,654,000 marriages were recorded by the NCHS, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
