cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as below. Source: Probative, Marriage and divorce rates by state (CDC NCHS), 1990 to 2024, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23845898, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Marriage and divorce rates by state (CDC NCHS), 1990 to 2024"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "1.0.0"
date-released: 2026-10-31
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23845898
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/marriage-divorce/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "Divorce rates (divorces and annulments per 1,000 residents, by state of occurrence) and marriage rates for every state that reports them to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, for 1990, 1995 and each year 2000 to 2024, with each reporting state's latest rate, its 2019 rate and its rate in 2000 (or its first reported year after 2000) and the change since; and the national provisional counts of divorces and marriages each year since 2000, with the states the national divorce count leaves out. Rates and counts only, as NCHS publishes them."
keywords:
  - "divorce rate by state"
  - "divorces per year United States"
  - "marriage rate by state"
  - "family law market data"
  - "divorce statistics by state 2024"
  - "CDC NCHS divorce rates"