Percent Widowed

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Percent Widowed
Among Older Australians, Malaysians, and
Croatians, Circa 2000
Australia, 2001 Malaysia, 2000
Croatia, 2000
Age
Age
Age
Source Compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau from
national sources.
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Notes on Percent Widowed

• For both men and women, the proportion married
  decreases with older age and the proportion
  widowed increases.
• In almost every society, older men are more
  likely to be married and older women are more
  likely to be widowed. Gender differences in
  marital status reflect the interplay of several
  factors, for example, women live longer than men
  women tend to marry men older than themselves,
  which, combined with the sex difference in life
  expectancy, increases the chance that a womans
  husband will die before she does and older
  widowed men have higher remarriage rates than
  older widowed women in many countries, often as a
  function of cultural norms.