21. Issues such as gay marriage rated among the least important issues tested in the survey. 22. _Sweden is similar, with its unusually low marriage rate nearly eclipsed by its divorce rate. 23. It will, however, take more than a one-year surge to reverse the declining marriage rate . 24. Denmark had the highest marriage rate and Belgium the most divorces per 1, 000 people. 25. Marriage rates increased and remained at high levels in the late 1930 to the mid-1940s.26. Divorce rates were dramatically increasing and marriage rates were significantly decreasing in this time period. 27. Several states of India claim specially high child marriage rates in their Muslim and tribal communities. 28. Indigenous Australians have a high interracial marriage rate . 29. Marriage rates have decreased since 1970; divorce rates, while remaining low, have slightly increased since 1970.30. Marriage rates in many developed countries are declining.
