The average age gap between American husbands and wives is down to 2.2 years apart, down from men being on average 2.4 years older than their spouse in 2000, and down from an average of 4.9 years in 1880. Today, the proportion of straight married couples where the spouses are about the same age is for the first time an outright majority, with 51 percent of couples in 2022 roughly the same age, 40 percent with a husband three or more years older, and 10 percent with a wife three or more years older.
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