Country | Number of marriages in 1985 per 1,000 people in the population | Number of marriages in 2016 per 1,000 people in the population |
United States | 10.1 | 7.0 |
Israel | 6.9 | 6.2 |
The EU | 6.2 | 4.4 |
Mexico | 7.4 | 4.4 |
Chile | 7.5 | 3.4 |
Argentina | 6.3 (1983) | 2.7 |
Ok, at least we aren't Argentina. Mauricio Macri really whored himself out at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, didn't he?

Assuming Wikipedia's Generations are correct and that the average age of their first marriage in the US in 1985 was 24.7 for men and 22.0 for women and in 2016 was 29.9 for men and 27.9 for women then the Baby Boomers married 144% of the 2016 level and Millennials married at 70% the rate of 1985. The biggest problem for the rate of marriage is that marriages have not leveled off their median age yet. What this means is that people are marrying later and later which slows the average marriages per year down until people hit a later and later target age and marry. For example, if everyone married at 18 in 1918 and 19 in 1919 and 20 in 1920 then the people born in 1900 would have all married in 1918 and the levels would drop to zero until the upper limit of "age when first married" peaked and then everyone born after 1900 would marry again. In reality marriages are being delayed just about exactly two months older per year since 1998.
It hasn't yet.
So marriages will each in reality happen two months later every year until some upper limit peaks and then the level of marriages will go from a valley suddenly to a peak as everyone's age catches up to the median age and then back down to a sane level as each younger person hits the median age. Assuming of course that we aren't in an unsustainable economic condition where America is turning into a bunch of eggheads who can't repair their toilet. Then the median age will hit the roof as fewer and fewer people reach the level of economic security as they age out. The marriage age then would hit 50 or even 60 as virtually nobody marries anyway.
In a healthy recovery it will peak as it did in 1946, and then level at ~10 marriages per 1000 people per year.
People, best case instead, are going to marry later and later, and the post-WWII marriage rate was never the American Standard anyway. However it has begun to peak above the average in 1990 for men and 1980 for women, like due to economic concerns for men and rising economic expectation for women. The signs are worrying but aren't as much the breakdown of the sexes as much as the far larger economic factors which are being hidden by media beneath upper class misandrist arguments which the working class women don't believe anyway. America isn't able to have sane conversations about changing demographics across the board, as the demographic victors don't want to change things and the demographic losers have no voice. Silently women are adapting to their new level of education and marrying down. High School or Less people are having quite a rough time go at things and delaying/going without their marriages because of it. All of this is class problems and hardly any of it is gender problems. If the overall marriage rate settles, then America will patriotically, socially, and economically settle down into a New Normal which could be hated but yet still tolerated. I less and less see a settling down of things.
While its true women are even losing their attachment to education in mate selection, as the bottom has fallen out on the number of educated men in their dating pool, and the educated are marrying at higher and higher levels. Its however clearly still trending towards utter unsustainablity because Postgraduate men are marrying at exactly similar rates as before and postgraduate women are the only ones actually marrying at higher rates—above 80% for the first time in human history, the reality is that "Some College" men went from 90% married down to 77% and "Some College" women went from 91% married down to 83%. The upper end of the educated are the only ones "who are winning", and their new attainment (which was their women getting married above 70%) rose the age of first marriage into the stratosphere
and overall unmarried women up to 1/5 of the population! The American Economy isn't working for at least the bottom 1/5 anymore—raising the median age of first marriage—and the GDP from their decline is going to hit in the next ten years, assuming the rate of failure doesn't grow to 1/4, 1/3, or even 1/2 of the population. I think the 2020s will see either disaster inevitable, the American economy restructures to lower the rate of failure back down to <10%, or a severe economic downturn approaches where >1/3 of society aren't participating patriotically, socially, or economically as they see they cannot win. I hope the female percentage of college levels out, marriage returns, and America starts working for more than the 36.7% of women who have postgraduate degrees in underwater basket-weaving. Otherwise America is going to be running on a demographic decline until suddenly it isn't even remotely sanely operating and stable in a few decades time.
Fuck, I hate this gay earth and its hedonism. Oswald Spengler, Aldous Huxley, and Sir John Glubb were right. People are just going to run on the treadmills our economy tells them will profit them in the end, and then the economy isn't going to pay them back. This is going to be far worse than slavery politically for America but the majority are still fat and happy so its going to become unfixable long before its apparent how badly people collectively got screwed by Globohomo. Fuck, I hate this gay earth and its hedonism.