Hello Americans – How often you get divorced after marriage? Are there any statistics?
The absolute latest annual divorce rate is 0.37% for the “year” ending Nov. 30, 2004. ~This rate is only for the states that keep track of the number of divorces. California, Colorado, Indiana and Louisiana do not. ~Since every divorce involves two people, the percentage becomes somewhat more meaningful if you double it. E.g., 0.74% of the entire population gets divorced every year. ~A rate per married people, instead of per straight population, would be even more helpful, but this statistic isn’t available. Generally, divorce is rarer and less readily available in Europe than in the U.S.
America is a continent, not a country. Canadians, Mexicans and Argentines are also american. Assuming you mean people in the USA, common wisdom says the divorce rate is 40 to 50%. But its very hard to count. From Wikipedia: As many statisticians have pointed out, it is very hard to count the divorce rate, since it is hard to determine if a couple who divorce and get back together in that same year should be considered a divorce, so there is in fact no predictive relationship between the two annual totals. This method does not take account of the length of marriage, just the fact that a certain percentage of people were divorced and a certain number of people are married, rendering the statistic almost meaningless. Nonetheless, the claim that “half of all marriages end in divorce” became widely accepted in the US in the 1970s, on the basis of this statistic, and has remained conventional wisdom. Pollster Lewis Harris in his 1987 book “Inside America” wrote that “the idea that half of Am
