Divorce Rates Around the World

DarnDivorce.com ^ | April 8, 2007 | DWordDiva

[Salvation]

Divorce Rates Around the World

Posted by DWordDiva

April 8, 2007

A surprising 1st place goes to Sweden (unfortunately followed by good old Uncle Sam), while an even more surprising last place can be awarded with honor to the 1.2 billion people of India.

Which brings me to the following question: Hey India, WHAT’S YOUR SECRET???

 

Rank	Country	Percent
1	India	1.1
2	Sri Lanka	1.5
3	Japan	1.9
4	Republic of Macedonia	5.0
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.0
6	Turkey	6.0
7	Armenia	6.0
8	Georgia	6.6
9	Italy	10.0
10	Azerbaijan	10.3
11	Albania	10.9
12	Israel	14.8
13	Spain	15.2
14	Croatia	15.5
15	Greece	15.7
16	Singapore	17.2
17	Poland	17.2
18	Romania	19.1
19	Slovenia	20.7
20	Bulgaria	21.1
21	Switzerland	25.5
22	Portugal	26.2
23	Slovakia	26.9
24	Moldova	28.1
25	Latvia	34.4
26	Canada	37.0
27	Hungary	37.5
28	Netherlands	38.3
29	France	38.3
30	Lithuania	38.9
31	Germany	39.4
32	Iceland	39.5
33	Ukraine	40.0
34	Norway	40.4
35	United Kingdom	42.6
36	Russia	43.3
37	Czech Republic	43.3
38	Austria	43.4
39	Belgium	44.0
40	Denmark	44.5
41	Estonia	46.7
42	Luxembourg	47.4
43	Finland	51.2
44	Belarus	52.9
45	United States	54.8
46	Sweden	54.9

[Salvation]

Are you surprised that the U. S. has the second highest divorce rate?

Nothing to be proud of, huh?

[Salvation]

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Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	4.95 per 1,000 people
# 2	Puerto Rico:	4.47 per 1,000 people
# 3	Russia:	3.36 per 1,000 people
# 4	United Kingdom:	3.08 per 1,000 people
# 5	Denmark:	2.81 per 1,000 people
# 6	New Zealand:	2.63 per 1,000 people
# 7	Australia:	2.52 per 1,000 people
# 8	Canada:	2.46 per 1,000 people
# 9	Finland:	1.85 per 1,000 people
# 10	Barbados:	1.21 per 1,000 people
# 11	Guadeloupe:	1.18 per 1,000 people
# 12	Qatar:	0.97 per 1,000 people
# 13	Portugal:	0.88 per 1,000 people
# 14	Albania:	0.83 per 1,000 people
# 15	Tunisia:	0.82 per 1,000 people
# 16	Singapore:	0.8 per 1,000 people
# 17	China:	0.79 per 1,000 people
# 18	Greece:	0.76 per 1,000 people
# 19	Brunei:	0.72 per 1,000 people
# 20	Panama:	0.68 per 1,000 people
# 21	Syria:	0.65 per 1,000 people
# 22	Thailand:	0.58 per 1,000 people
# 23	Mauritius:	0.47 per 1,000 people
# 24	Ecuador:	0.42 per 1,000 people
# 25	El Salvador:	0.41 per 1,000 people
# 26	Cyprus:	0.39 per 1,000 people
= 27	Chile:	0.38 per 1,000 people
= 27	Jamaica:	0.38 per 1,000 people
= 29	Mongolia:	0.37 per 1,000 people
= 29	Turkey:	0.37 per 1,000 people
# 31	Mexico:	0.33 per 1,000 people
# 32	Italy:	0.27 per 1,000 people
# 33	Brazil:	0.26 per 1,000 people
# 34	Sri Lanka:	0.15 per 1,000 people
	Weighted average:	1.3 per 1,000 people

[fwdude]

I want to know what methodology is used to determine “rate.”

[Delta 21]

Geez! Glad we weren’t last.

[OneWingedShark]

Hey India, WHAT’S YOUR SECRET???

As politically incorrect as it sounds, probably arranged marriages.

[Viking2002]

Explain it to that dim bulb siting out on my sofa. I'm going to add to it toot sweet if she doesn't find a shoehorn big enough to pry her deluded, self-pitying head out of her ass. No matter how hard you try or what tack you take, you can't fix stupid.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[Cisco Nix]

Yeah, I figured it would be U.S. and Russia. Both societies love to murder their babies.

[forgotten man]

“I want to know what methodology is used to determine ‘rate.’”

Me too. I have always been suspicious of the “half of all marriages wind up in divorce so why get married in the first place” argument. I heard that they look at the total number of divorce decrees and compare that to the total number of new marriage licenses. What about all of the existing marriages that keep on rolling year after year? I am 57 years old and about 80% of all the married couples I know stick it out until death do they part.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Don't know about India but in Chile which is 27th on the list it is legally very hard and very expensive to get divorced. Of course, that does not mean that you have a bunch of intact marriages. It just means that among the lower classes there is a lot of shacking up by married couples.

[Lazlo in PA]

If these two lovebirds can do it all these decades, why can't the rest of us? I hope Oprah has them on before her last show so the rest of us can learn their magic.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I looked for China on the list... didn’t see it. Was curious about them, too.

[Responsibility2nd]

No mussie countries?

I guess they don’t divorce their wives - they behead them.

[Salvation]

Check out those sites.

[Salvation]

I think abortion impacts the number, yes!

[Salvation]

**very hard and very expensive to get divorced**

Maybe that’s the secret.....it’s too affordable!

[Salvation]

You need to warn us before you post such pix. LOL!

[Salvation]

China is on the second sourced list. I posted them both since there were differences.

[Cisco Nix]

“I think abortion impacts the number, yes!”

Absolutely. A society that murders its offspring is immoral? Why would they stay married?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I saw it afterwards. I was responding to your initial post.

[James C. Bennett]

"Absolutely. A society that murders its offspring is immoral? Why would they stay married?"