Thursday, July 6, 2023
WaPo Stats on International Marriage Rates
WaPo's article The states where you’re most (and least) likely to marry a local includes fascinating data about not only interstate but also international marriages in the United States.
Here are some of the numbers:
- 12.4% of Americans marry someone from another country. That's up from a low of 6.3% in 1980. We last reached those heights, nearly, in 1900 when 12.1% of Americans married someone from another country.
- About a fifth of international marriages involve a partner from Mexico.
- Germany, the Philippines, Canada and the U.K. also supply a significant number of American spouses.
- Mexican marriages dominate most of the Western United States.
- Canadian marriages, unsurprisingly, dominate the Northern border (Montana, N Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts.)
- In Alaska, by contrast, German marriages dominate. That's not too surprising when you think about it -- Alaska is military country and we've got bases in Germany.
Man, I super love WaPo's Department of Data coverage. It's always fascinating.
-KitJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2023/07/wapo-stats-on-international-marriage-rates.html