Marriage vs. Divorce

I faced off marriage/wedding and divorce.



Marriage was much more Google-popular than divorce, no surprise there. Note the seasonal pattern: the summer was the peak season every year while December was the low point. How about we see which countries were most interested in wedded bliss?



The top 3 was: South Africa, the US and Trinidad and Tobago. The latter was interesting: did a lot of Americans and Europeans maybe get married in this sunny, tropical holiday destination? The antithesis then:



In the US, South Africa and Canada, more people used Google to inform themselves about divorce than in other countries. Trinidad and Tobago made it in the top 10 again: no. 8.

Sex vs. Love vs. Marriage

Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of love in all years.
sex 2.60
love 1.00
marriage 0.10

As this Google Trends graph shows, people are looking more for sex than love—not exactly a surprise—and aren't thinking much about marriage... Over the 4-year period, sex is gradually increasing, love is stable and marriage is very slightly declining, which is more obvious in a "marriage-only" graph:


Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of marriage in all years.
marriage 1.00