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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.
- Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Max Roser
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In the UK, ONS statistics showed women petitioned for 62% of divorces in England and Wales in 2019. Now, in some Western countries, divorce is becoming easier; the UK, for instance, recently...
Non-marriage, cohabitation, divorce and separation: Globally, the share of never-married women aged 45-49 increased from 3.1 per cent around 1990 to 4.3 per cent around 2010. This rate was highest in Australia and New Zealand (14.1 per cent) and lowest in Central and Southern Asia (1.1 per cent).14.
THE WORLD FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: 2019-2020 The current situation in the world is precarious for many people. But even more hangs in the balance for most women and girls. Gender inequalities and discrimination filter through every issue, whether a new pandemic or longstanding conflicts, deep-seated disparities in income or a lack of political voice.
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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).
Aug 28, 2019 · The odds of divorce in the first decade or two of marriage fell for U.S. cohorts married from 1980 to 2010 (Rotz 2016), and the refined divorce rate—divorces per 1,000 married women—fell as well (Hemez 2017), although problems of data comparability make that assessment less definitive.
