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Divorce rate in Belgium

Divorces per 1,000 people, 2023

1.7

The crude divorce rate: divorces in the year for every 1,000 inhabitants.

Divorces per 100 marriages, 2023

43

Divorces in the year compared with marriages in the same year. This is not the share of marriages that end in divorce.

In 1990 there were 2.0 divorces per 1,000 people in Belgium. In 2023 the rate was 1.7, which is lower.

The trend: divorces per 1,000 people

Crude divorce rate in Belgium, 1960 to 20230.01.02.03.04.019601970198019902000201020201.7Divorces per 1,000 people

The trend: divorces per 100 marriages

Divorces per 100 marriages in Belgium020406080196019701980199020002010202043Divorces per 100 marriages in the same year

This line can jump in 2020 and 2021, when many weddings were postponed and the number of marriages fell sharply, even if divorces did not change much. It is a comparison of two yearly totals, not a forecast for any couple.

Reading the numbers. Divorce statistics depend on each country’s law and on how it counts: whether annulments and legal separations are included, whether religious or out-of-court divorces are recorded, and how much of the population is married at all. Compare countries with care.

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Source

Eurostat: divorce indicators (table demo_ndivind). Figures for 1960 to 2023.

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