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by acheron 3778 days ago
The odds of first marriage are better than 50/50. That statistic is for total marriages, but people who divorce once on average divorce multiple times. Success rate of first marriage is something like 65%. Also, that success rate goes higher if you're high income, like most of HN.

Yes, thanks, I was about to post the same thing. Also divorce rates are lower among college graduates (which is correlated with income of course).

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Not just that, the divorce rate increases with the number of previous sexual partners (especially for women): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/more-sexual-partner...
I have no data to back this up, but I would guess that college / university graduates also get married later in life.
Based on the first Google result [1], average age of first marriage goes up by ~2.5 years for men and ~3.5 years for women with a bachelor's degree over just a high school diploma.

1 http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorc...