Monday, May 17, 2021

Across the European Union marriages down, divorces up

Across the European Union the number of marriages is decreasing, while numbers divorcing is increasing.

The marriage rate in the European Union has fallen from eight per 1,000 in 1964 to 4.3 in 2019, wheres the divorce rate over the same period has increased from 0.8 per 1,000 to 1.8 per 1,000.

In Ireland there were 4.1 marriages per 1,000 people in 2019, 3.5 in France, 5.0 in Germany, 7.0 in Lithuania.

In the same year in Ireland there were o.7 divorces per 1,000 people, in Latvia it was 3.1, Germany 1.8, France 1.9.

1 comment:

Michael said...

Michael
Ireland has the lowest divorce rate in the EU. That’s a significant fact in light of the dire warnings at the time of the last divorce referendum,
Michael

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