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What percentage of Americans who have ever married have been divorced?

23.2% of Americans who have ever married have been divorced - about 23 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

Where this number comes from

Survey

General Social Survey

What it measured

GSS 2024 item DIVORCE (“Ever been divorced or separated”), counting responses 1=yes. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 1,604.

Population

U.S. adults who have ever been married

Year

2024

95% confidence interval

20.62% to 25.78% (derived from the published standard error)

NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data

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