long distance relationship

How common are long distance relationships?
Long Distance Relationship Statistics: The best estimates suggest that there are 3,569,000 married persons in the United States who live apart for reasons other than marital discord in 2005 (the latest data available).
This is 2.9% of all US marriages.
Compared to 2000 there are 839,000 more people in a long-distance marriage than in 2005. There was a 30% relative increase in the rate of long-distance marriages between 2000 and 2005 (2.36% of marriages in 2000 and 2.9% of marriages in 2005).
Newlyweds have an even greater chance of being long-distance early in their marriage with one study of 600 couples showing 1 in 10 were long-distance during some portion of their first 3 years.
Pre-marital couples are harder to study though research shows an estimated 4.4 million college students (20-40% of all students in some studies) are in LDRs. One study of dating relationships estimated 1 in 7 (14%) were long-distance. Extrapolating from census data it is likely that 3.5 million dating couples are long-distance.
Overall, there are just over 7 million couples (14-15 million individuals) in the US who consider themselves in a long distance relationship.

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