Table 1.

The 2019 Gray Divorce Rates Across Marital Biography, Demographic Characteristics, and Economic Resources, by Age Group

	Fifty and older	Fifty to sixty-four	Sixty-five and older
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(2) versus (3)
Total	9.64	12.72	5.60	***
Marital biography a
Marriage order
First marriage	7.59	10.32	3.90	***
Higher order marriage	14.21	18.35	9.18	***
Marital duration (years)
0–9	18.13	18.73	16.05
10–19	15.03	16.65	10.07	***
20–29	13.92	15.01	9.82	***
30–39	8.17	8.60	6.93	**
>40	3.80	6.00	3.37	***
Demographic characteristics
Gender
Women	9.96	12.87	5.81	***
Men	9.33	12.57	5.43	***
Race and ethnicity
White	8.51	11.87	4.61	***
Black	17.40	20.42	12.28	***
Hispanic	11.95	13.38	8.90	***
Asian	8.21	9.56	6.06	***
Others	12.69	14.84	8.66	***
Economic resources
Education
Less than high school	11.51	14.29	8.31	***
High school graduate	10.10	13.49	5.96	***
Some college	10.58	14.15	5.55	***
Bachelor’s degree or more	7.84	10.41	4.35	***
Employment
Not in labor force	7.08	12.09	5.02	***
Unemployed	24.37	25.86	17.02
Worked part-time	9.79	11.88	6.68	***
Worked full-time	12.00	12.69	7.65	***
Personal income
<10K	8.77	11.26	5.46	***
10–25K	9.97	15.38	6.12	***
25–40K	11.24	15.53	6.43	***
40–55K	10.26	13.51	5.34	***
55–70K	9.27	11.82	5.01	***
>70K	8.79	10.75	4.53	***
Unweighted N	892,714	477,134	415,580

Notes: The divorce rate is the number of divorced persons per 1,000 married persons. Source: American Community Survey, 2019.

^aSeven gray-divorced persons (unweighted) for whom marriage order could not be determined were excluded.

^** p < .01,

^*** p < .001.