World Divorce Statistics.

1. World Divorce Statistics
Percentage of New Marriages which End in
Divorce, in Selected Countries (2002)
Country
Divorces (as % of
marriages)
Sweden
Belarus
Finland
Luxembourg
Estonia
Australia
United States
Denmark
Belgium
Austria
Czech Republic
Russia
United Kingdom
Norway
Ukraine
Iceland
Germany
Lithuania
France
Netherlands
Hungary
Canada
Latvia
Moldova
Slovakia
Portugal
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Romania
Poland
54.9
52.9
51.2
47.4
46.7
46
45.8
44.5
44
43.4
43.3
43.3
42.6
40.4
40
39.5
39.4
38.9
38.3
38.3
37.5
37
34.4
28.1
26.9
26.2
25.5
21.1
20.7
19.1
17.2

2. Singapore
Greece
Croatia
Spain
Israel
Albania
Azerbaijan
Italy
Georgia
Armenia
Turkey
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Macedonia
Sri Lanka
India
17.2
15.7
15.5
15.2
14.8
10.9
10.3
10
6.6
6
6
5
5
1.5
1.1
Divorce Rates of Selected Countries
(2002)
Country
Divorce Rate (per
1,000 population per
year)
Maldives
Guam
Belarus
Russia
United States
Ukraine
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Estonia
Czech Republic
Lithuania
Switzerland
Finland
Denmark
Moldova
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Australia
10.97
4.34
4.3
4.3
4.1
4
3.82
3.54
3.1
2.9
2.9
2.8
2.7
2.7
2.7
2.65
2.6
2.6

3. Belgium
Latvia
Sweden
Austria
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Germany
Luxembourg
Canada
Norway
South Korea
Netherlands
Costa Rica
Uruguay
France
Hong Kong
Japan
Portugal
Iceland
Cyprus
Slovakia
Kuwait
Israel
Romania
Bahamas
Singapore
Bahrein
Bulgaria
Kyrgyzstan
Surinam
Jordan
Barbados
Egypt
Dominican Republic
Poland
Slovenia
Turkmenistan
Tunisia
Trinidad and Tobago
Qatar
Greece
Yugoslavia
Spain
2.6
2.6
2.4
2.4
2.4
2.35
2.3
2.3
2.28
2.2
2.12
2.1
2.04
2.01
2
1.96
1.92
1.9
1.9
1.7
1.7
1.58
1.56
1.4
1.37
1.31
1.31
1.3
1.3
1.23
1.22
1.21
1.18
1.17
1.1
1.1
1.1
1.04
1
0.97
0.9
0.9
0.9

4. Thailand
Mauritius
United Arab Emirates
South Africa
Croatia
Venezuela
China
Ecuador
Syria
Brunei
Macedonia
Azerbaijan
Iran
Macau SAR
Panama
Uzbekistan
Italy
Albania
Brazil
Belize
Jamaica
Turkey
El Salvador
Mexico
Chile
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Georgia
Mongolia
Armenia
Libya
Sri Lanka
Guatemala
0.9
0.87
0.87
0.81
0.8
0.79
0.79
0.73
0.73
0.72
0.7
0.7
0.69
0.65
0.65
0.61
0.6
0.6
0.6
0.58
0.55
0.5
0.49
0.48
0.42
0.4
0.4
0.38
0.3
0.24
0.15
0.13
(Source: Americans for Divorce Reform)
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