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Divorce rate in Costa Rica

Divorces per 1,000 people, 2021

2.8

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

Divorces per 100 marriages, 2019

62

Divorces in the year compared with marriages in the same year; worked out by us from the OECD crude divorce and marriage rates. This is not the share of marriages that end in divorce.

In 2010 there were 2.5 divorces per 1,000 people in Costa Rica. In 2021 the rate was 2.8, which is higher.

The trend: divorces per 1,000 people

Crude divorce rate in Costa Rica, 2010 to 20210.01.02.03.04.02010201220142016201820202.8Divorces per 1,000 people

The trend: divorces per 100 marriages

Divorces per 100 marriages in Costa Rica02040608020102012201420162018202059Divorces 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

OECD Family Database: marriage and divorce rates (indicator SF3.1). Figures for 2010 to 2021.

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