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MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) — Marriage is making a slight comeback in Wisconsin.
Data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services shows that the state’s marriage rate, which has been steadily declining since 1980, returning to a pre-pandemic level.
Though COVID-19 intensified a decline, with marriage rates hitting 50-year lows in 2020 with just 2.1 Wisconsinites per one-thousand getting married, recent data shows an upward trend in marriages since then.
The state’s divorce rates has gone down as well. Despite that, the marriage rate is still far below the all-time peak of 12.2 per 1000 marrying during the mid-1940’s.
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