What percentage of Americans are divorced or widowed? The share of divorced men and women has increased. In 1950, 2.0% of men and 2.4% of women were divorced. In 2024, those figures were 8.4% for men, 10.8% for women. The opposite was true of widows and widowers — the share of widowed men has declined 1.3 percentage points, from 4.1% in 1950 to 2.9% in 2024. Widowed women dropped 3.6 percentage points, from 11.8% to 8.1%. In terms of overall numbers, more people were divorced than were widowed o