ONS: Divorce Rates Drop to Lowest Level in Decades

Published on February 22, 2024

The number of couples getting divorced has reached its lowest rate since 1971, official data has revealed. There were 80,057 divorces granted in England and Wales in 2022, representing a 29.5 percent decrease compared with 2021. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported divorce rates of 6.7 for men and 6.6 for women per 1,000 of the male or female married population. The report also recorded a 22.8 percent decrease, compared with 2021, in the number of civil partnership dissolutions. There were 525 civil partnership dissolutions recorded in 2022, the lowest rate since 2010. The median duration of marriages that ended in divorce was 12.9 years for opposite-sex couples. Same-sex marriages for male and female couples lasted 7.5 and 6.3 years respectively....

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