There seems to be a study looking into almost every possible factor that might affect marriages and lead to divorce. These studies have yielded some extremely interesting and β in some cases β downright shocking information about divorce in both the United States and the rest of the world. We have compiled a nearly exhaustive list with every divorce statistic, study, and fact that we could find.
As we move into , our San Diego divorce lawyer team has provided everything you need to know β and quite possibly more- about divorce.
As a result of the COVID pandemic and varying states of lockdowns all over the United States and the World, both the divorce rate and marriage rates dropped significantly in According to the CDC, there were , divorces in for a rate of 2. That represents a decline of nearly 16 percent from β the largest single-year decline since at least While the divorce rate increased to 2. In the latest data available , the marriage rate in the United States was 6.
In the same year, the divorce rate was the U. Although useful for describing changes in divorce rates over time, the crude divorce rate does not provide accurate information on the percentage of first marriages that end in divorce. As of , both marriage rates AND divorce rates in the US are decreasing β with the marriage rate dropping from 8.
Recent studies have shown that millennials are choosing to wait longer to get married and staying married longer and are the main driver in the decline of both the marriage and divorce rate in the US. Currently, the divorce rate per married women is Many experts feel that this is a much more accurate measure of true divorce rate than the crude rate. The divorce rate per married women is nearly double that of , but down from the all-time high of The United States has the 6th highest divorce rate in the world.
