CNN —If you’ve made it to your 40th birthday without tying the knot, you’re not alone, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center.
A look at 2021 US Census Bureau data found a quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, the research center announced Wednesday.
The findings were a “significant increase” from the 20% of unmarried 40-year-olds in 2010, according to the study.
The findings, which suggest a shift in Americans’ views of the importance of getting hitched, differed widely to the statistics reported decades ago in 1980, when just 6% of 40-year-olds had never married, Pew reported.
If the pattern continues, the research center anticipated that “a similar share” of never-married 40-year-olds would also get married in the coming years.
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