Contributed by: Editor on Sunday, August 24 2008 @ 01:27 pm
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I saw some interesting statistics on a website that mentions:
According to the US Census, 40% of American adults patronize the services of online dating sites resulting in about 120,000 marriages annually.
I searched the U.S. Census Bureau website[*1] for awhile and couldn't find the information mentioned in the quote. If this statistic is true, it would mean that eHarmony is responsible for a third of all marriages that resulted from online dating. According to eHarmony they are responsible for on average 118 marriages a day or 43,000 in one year, in the United States (see stats).
I am suspect of the number of total marriages resulting from online dating as mentioned in the quote above since, other facts didn't ring true in the article. As example, it also mentions:
China too expects dating patrons to grow in huge numbers. With 64 million singles residing in the nation, the market is expected to double in the present year.
The United States has a population of roughly 300 million with over 90 million singles. Canada has a population of 30 million with a third being single. This is the same ratio as the United States. China has a population of over 1.3 billion. I would expect them to have more that 64 million singles, a lot more! If the same ratio holds true then you would expect to see over 400 million singles.
For the full article called Internet Dating – The Good, Bad and Ugly, visit MedIndia.com[*2] . See our eHarmony Review for more information on this dating service.