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Jun 15, 2020 · The mean age of women on the verge of divorce was 33 ± 8.51 years and for men 37.2 ± 6.13 years. Fifty percent of the couples had a bachelor's degree and 62.5% of them were self-employed....
Aug 25, 1993 · This authoritative book examines current trends in divorce throughout the world, analyzing hitherto inaccessible information on Asian and Arab countries and Eastern Europe, as well as data from Latin America, Western Europe, and the Anglo countries.
This open access book provides the latest on divorce trends including leveling off or decreasing divorce trends; Includes new insights in consequences of divorce for adults, children and the larger family network; Discusses divorce risks of countries which show the highest divorce figures in Europe
- Marriages Are Becoming Less Common
- There Has Been A ‘Decoupling’ of Parenthood and Marriage
- Same-Sex Marriage Has Become Possible in Many Countries
- Marriage Trends Show That Social Institutions Can, and Often Do Change Quickly
- Marriages in Many Countries Are Getting Longer
In many countries, marriage rates are declining
The proportion of people who are getting married is going down in many countries across the world. The chart here shows this trend for a selection of countries. It combines data from multiple sources, including statistical country offices and reports from the UN, Eurostat, and the OECD. For the US we have data on marriage rates going back to the start of the 20th century. This lets us see when the decline started, and trace the influence of social and economic changes during the process. 1. I...
Marriages across cohorts have declined
This chart looks at the change in marriages from a different angle and answers the question: How likely were people of different generations to be married by a given age? In many rich countries there are statistical records going back several generations, allowing us to estimate marriage rates by age and year of birth. The chart here uses those records to give marriage rates by age and year of birth for five cohorts of men in England and Wales. For instance, you can look at 30-year-olds, and...
People are marrying later
In many countries, declining marriage rates have been accompanied by an increase in the age at which people are getting married. This is shown in the chart here, where we plot the average age of women at first marriage.3 The increase in the age at which people are getting married is stronger in richer countries, particularly in North America and Europe. In countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the average age at marriage has increased less or broadly remained unchanged. More people marrying later...
The share of children born outside of marriage has increased substantially in almost all OECD countries
An arrangement where two or more people are not married but live together is referred to as cohabitation. In recent decades cohabitation has become increasingly common around the world. In the US, for example, the US Census Bureau estimatesthat the share of young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 living with an unmarried partner went up from 0.1% to 9.4% over the period 1968-2018; and according to a surveyfrom Pew Research, today most Americans favor allowing unmarried couples to have the...
Globally, the percentage of women in either marriage or cohabitation is decreasing, but only slightly
In recent decades there has been a decline in global marriage rates, and at the same time, there has been an increase in cohabitation. What’s the combined effect if we consider marriage and cohabitation together? The chart below plots estimates and projections, from the UN Population Division, for the percentage of women of reproductive age (15 to 49 years) who are either married or living with an unmarried partner. Overall, the trend shows a global decline – but only a relatively small one,...
Single parenting is common, and in many countries, it has increased in recent decades
This chart shows the share of households of a single parent living with dependent children. There are large differences between countries.6 The causes and situations leading to single parenting are varied, and unsurprisingly, single-parent families are very diverse in terms of socio-economic background and living arrangements, across countries, within countries, and over time. However, there are some common patterns: 1. Women head the majority of single-parent households, and this gender gap...
Marriage equality is increasingly considered a human and civil right, with important political, social, and religious implications around the world. In 1989, Denmark became the first country to recognize a legal relationship for same-sex couples, establishing ‘registered partnerships’ granting those in same-sex relationships most of the rightsgiven...
Across the world, fewer people are choosing to marry, and those who do marry are, on average, doing so later in life. The underlying drivers of these trends include the rise of contraceptives, the increase of female participation in labor markets (as we explain in our article here), and the transformation of institutional and legal environments, su...
As we saw from data on divorce rates, in some countries – particularly richer countries such as the UK, US and Germany – divorce rates have been falling since the 1990s. This can be partially explained by a reduction in the shareof marriages ending in divorce, but also by the length of marriages before their dissolution. How has the length of marri...
- Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Max Roser
- 2020
Feb 3, 2019 · The divorce rates for Northern Europe and Western Europe, including the Scandinavian countries, are all fairly high, ranging from 4.03 for France to 6.22 for Denmark and 6.55 for the UK. The...
Jun 18, 2024 · These four articles report on studies conducted with dramatically different samples from multiple countries across the world, yet all fundamentally center children’s experiences of what has become a globally common family transition – parental divorce (Wang & Schofer, Citation 2018).
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Mar 21, 2014 · This chapter focuses on divorce and union dissolution in the Western countries. The increases in marital instability are among the core features of family change known as the second demographic transition, and have raised a great deal of interest among social scientists and the public alike.
