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  1. Divorces in England and Wales

    • ons.gov.uk
    • cy.ons.gov.uk
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    Updated Jul 2, 2025
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    Office for National Statistics (2025). Divorces in England and Wales [Dataset]. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/divorce/datasets/divorcesinenglandandwales
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    Jul 2, 2025
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    Open Government Licence 3.0http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Annual divorce numbers and rates, by duration of marriage, sex, to whom granted and reason, that took place in England and Wales.

  2. Divorce rates in Europe 2020, by country (per 100 marriages)

    • statista.com
    Updated Feb 13, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Divorce rates in Europe 2020, by country (per 100 marriages) [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/612207/divorce-rates-in-european-countries-per-100-marriages/
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    Feb 13, 2024
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2020
    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    According to the 2020 UNIDOMO questionnaire, Portugal clearly led the list of European countries with the highest divorce rate per 100 marriages. With 91.5 divorces the Portuguese Republic led the list, followed by Spain and Luxembourg. All three countries boast a significantly higher share than the other European countries, each reporting a divorce rate over 80 divorces.

    A different way to look at Portugal

    While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European countries alters the picture of the country as one unsettled by significant numbers of divorces. With nearly 1.7 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants Portugal has roughly the same divorce rate as Germany and the Netherlands. Interesting is furthermore that although marriages in Portugal tend to result in divorce lightly more often as in Luxembourg (80.3%), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg experienced a 0.6 point higher divorce rate.

    What about the rest of the World?

    While compared with Latin American countries like Guatemala or Peru, ranked among the countries with the lowest divorce rates in the world, Luxembourg’s divorce rate seems excessive. However, when compared with divorce rates (per 1.000 inhabitants) of countries like the United States (2.7) or China (3.5) divorce rates from Luxembourg and Europe are not out of the ordinary.

  3. Divorce rate in Great Britain 1950-2021

    • statista.com
    Updated Jun 30, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Divorce rate in Great Britain 1950-2021 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/281568/divorce-rate-great-britain/
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 30, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United Kingdom, Great Britain
    Description

    In 2021, the divorce rate in England and Wales was *** divorces per thousand married couples, which was significantly higher than the rate in 2018, which was ***. The Divorce rate in England and Wales has been falling steadily since a rate of **** was recorded in 2003 and 2004. In the last available data for Scotland in 2008, the divorce rate was ****.

  4. Divorces in England and Wales by age at and duration of marriage and cohort...

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    Updated Nov 23, 2015
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    Office for National Statistics (2015). Divorces in England and Wales by age at and duration of marriage and cohort analyses: historical data [Dataset]. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/divorce/datasets/divorcesinenglandandwalesageatmarriagedurationofmarriageandcohortanalyses
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    Dataset updated
    Nov 23, 2015
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    Office for National Statisticshttp://www.ons.gov.uk/
    License

    Open Government Licence 3.0http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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    Description

    Ages of husband and wife at marriage, and analyses of the percentage of marriages ending in divorce by year of marriage and anniversary, and proportions of men and women who had ever divorced by year of birth and age.

  5. Family Court Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2022

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    Updated Jun 30, 2022
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    Ministry of Justice (2022). Family Court Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2022 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2022
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 30, 2022
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    Ministry of Justice
    Description

    This report presents the latest statistics on type and volume of cases that are received and processed through the family court system of England and Wales in the first quarter of 2022 (January to March).

    The material contained within this publication was formerly contained in Court Statistics Quarterly, a publication combining Civil, Family and Criminal court statistics.

    New divorce law: Divorce legislation changed on 6 April 2022 that aims to reduce the potential for conflict. This will be reported on in the next issue of Family Court Statistics Quarterly and we would like to hear users’ views. If you have any suggestions regarding the new divorce law that you would like to see included, please contact familycourt.statistics@justice.gov.uk by 15 July 2022.

    Pre-release access

    In addition to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) professional and production staff, pre-release access to the quarterly statistics of up to 24 hours is granted to the following postholders:

    Ministry of Justice

    Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State; 2 Parliamentary Under Secretary of States; Lords spokesperson; Permanent Secretary; 6 Private Secretaries; 3 Special Advisors;

    Head of News; Head of Communications at the Office for Public Guardian; 2 Deputy Head of News; Chief Press Officer; 2 Press Officers;

    Director General, Performance, Strategy and Analysis Group; Director General, Policy and Strategy Group; Family Justice Director; Deputy Director, Family Justice policy; Head of Family Justice Reform; Civil, Family, Tribunals data lead, Courts and Tribunals Recovery Unit.

    Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS)

    Chief Executive; Chief Financial Officer; Director of Operations; Deputy Director, Family Operations; Operation lead, Divorce; Head of Operational Performance; Head of Family Modernisation and Improvement.

  6. Family Court Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2021

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    Updated Jun 24, 2021
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    Ministry of Justice (2021). Family Court Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2021 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 24, 2021
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    GOV.UKhttp://gov.uk/
    Authors
    Ministry of Justice
    Description

    This report presents the latest statistics on type and volume of cases that are received and processed through the family court system of England and Wales in the first quarter of 2021 (January to March).

    The material contained within this publication was formerly contained in Court Statistics Quarterly, a publication combining Civil, Family and Criminal court statistics.

    Notice: In the FCSQ consultation response (published March 2021) we committed to publishing divorce timeliness measures as per HMCTS’ monthly management information publications. We will be continuing exploration of the measures and underlying data to ensure the data is presented appropriately alongside existing measures.

    Also we are running consultations on data published in FCSQ for the Court of Protection (Tables 21 and 22) and the Office for the Public Guardian (Table 23). Please see the relevant tables for further details and deadlines.

    Pre-release access

    In addition to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) professional and production staff, pre-release access to the quarterly statistics of up to 24 hours is granted to the following postholders:

    Ministry of Justice

    Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State; 2 Parliamentary Under Secretary of States; Lords spokesperson; Permanent Secretary; Principal Private Secretary; Deputy Principal Private Secretary; 6 Private Secretaries; 8 Deputy Private Secretaries; 13 Assistant Private Secretaries; 3 Special Advisors; President of the Family Division; Head of News; Head of Communications at the Office for Public Guardian; Deputy Head of News; 2 Chief Press Officers; 2 Press Officers; Chief Finance Officer; Director, Policy and Strategy Group; Director of Data and Analytical Services; Chief Statistician; 13 Policy and Analytical Advisors.

    Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS)

    Interim Chief Executive; Head of Court Tribunal Service Centre; National Services Director; Head of Family Modernisation and Improvement; Delivery Director, National Business Services; Deputy Director, Family Operations; Operation lead, Divorce; Head of Operational Performance; Head of Data and MI Delivery; 3 Operational Managers.

  7. Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages

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    Updated Feb 24, 2023
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    Office for National Statistics (2023). Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages [Dataset]. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/vitalstatisticspopulationandhealthreferencetables
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 24, 2023
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    License

    Open Government Licence 3.0http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    Annual UK and constituent country figures for births, deaths, marriages, divorces, civil partnerships and civil partnership dissolutions.

  8. Average age at marriage in Spain in 2023, by autonomous community and gender...

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    Updated Jan 22, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Average age at marriage in Spain in 2023, by autonomous community and gender [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/451541/average-age-at-marriage-in-spain-by-autonomous-community-and-gender/
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    Dataset updated
    Jan 22, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    Spain
    Description

    The mean age at first marriage in Spain was, along with Sweden, one of the highest in the European Union. Based on this setup, it is no wonder that the Spanish autonomous communities featured quite elevated numbers - particularly in the Canary Islands, where the average age at first marriage stood at over 41 years old for men and over 38 for women in 2023. Easy come easy go Marriage might be undergoing a declining popularity among Spaniards, or so it would seem by its national (heterosexual) marriage figures, which have experienced a slight decrease overtime. In 2023, the Balearic Islands recording the highest numbers on the list of marriage rate in Spain, with a rate of 4.43 marriages per 1,000 people. Moreover, Spain has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe, with 85.5 divorces per 100 marriages carried out in this country in 2020. Ageing: a common problem across the continent The age at first marriage is not the only digit that is on the rise in Spain. Data related to age in the Mediterranean country essentially behaves in a similar fashion as the rest of its European counterparts, whose population is also slowly but surely getting older. In 2023, the life expectancy at birth in Spain stood at 83.77 years, one of the highest in the world.

  9. Average age at marriage in England and Wales 1851-2022, by gender

    • statista.com
    Updated Jun 26, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Average age at marriage in England and Wales 1851-2022, by gender [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/557962/average-age-at-marriage-england-and-wales/
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 26, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    The average age at which people in England and Wales get married has been getting older since the 1970s, with the average age of men marrying women rising from **** in 1972 to **** by 2019, with the average age for women marrying men increasing from **** to **** in the same time period. Since 2014, and the legalization of same-sex marriage in England and Wales, the average age for men marrying men has fluctuated between **** and ****, while the average age for females marrying females has fluctuated between **** and ****.

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Divorces in England and Wales

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Dataset updated
Jul 2, 2025
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Description

Annual divorce numbers and rates, by duration of marriage, sex, to whom granted and reason, that took place in England and Wales.

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