In 2022, there were 420,741 divorced individuals between the ages of 55 and 59 years old living in Canada. In that same year, there were 27 divorced people between the ages of 15 and 19 years old living in Canada.

Number of persons who divorced in a given year and age-specific divorce rates per 1,000 legally married persons, by sex or gender and place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.

Number of divorces and various divorce indicators (crude divorce rate, divorce rate for married persons, age-standardized divorce rate, total divorce rate, mean and median duration of marriage, median duration of divorce proceedings, percentage of joint divorce applications), by place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.

Divorces, by age group of husband and age group of wife at divorce, 2004 to 2005.

In 2022, there were about 2.78 million people who had obtained a legal divorce and not remarried in Canada. This figure has been steadily increasing since 2000, when there were about 1.88 million divorcees in Canada.

Age-specific divorce rates per 1,000 legally married females, Canada, provinces and territories

Divorces, by age of husband at marriage and at divorce, Canada

This table contains 169 series, with data for years 2004 - 2005 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography, place of occurrence (1 item: Canada, place of occurrence); Age of husband at divorce (13 items: Age of husband at divorce, 15 years and over; Age of husband at divorce, under 20 years; Age of husband at divorce, 20 to 24 years; Age of husband at divorce, 25 to 29 years; ...); Age of wife at divorce (13 items: Age of wife at divorce, 15 years and over; Age of wife at divorce, under 20 years; Age of wife at divorce, 20 to 24 years; Age of wife at divorce, 25 to 29 years; ...).

Mean age and median age at divorce and at marriage, by sex, Canada, provinces and territories

Mean age and median age at marriage, for persons who married in a given year, by legal marital status, gender (when available), the couple's gender composition (when available) and place of occurrence, 1991 to most recent year.

Cycle 15 of the General Social Survey (GSS)is the third cycle to collect detailed information on family life in Canada. The previous GSS cycles that collected family data were Cycles 5 and 10. Topics include demographic characteristics such as age, sex, and marital status; family origin of parents; brothers and sisters; marriages of respondent; common-law unions of respondent; fertility and family intentions; values and attitudes; education history; work history; main activity and other characteristics. There are three data files included in this package of microdata for GSS-15, the main file, the child file and the union file. This product repeats the core content of the 1990 and 1995 General Social Survey.