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A Profile of Older Americans: 2005
Marital Status
men, 42% of women (Figure 2). Almost half of all older women in 2004 were widows (43%). There were over four times as many widows (8.2 million) as widowers (2.0 million).
Divorced and separated (including married/spouse absent) older persons represented only 10.6% of all older persons in 2004. However, this percentage has increased since 1980, when approximately 5.3% of the older population were divorced or separated/spouse absent.
(Based on Internet releases of data from the 2004 Current Population Survey of the U.S. Bureau of the Census)
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