Divorce rate in Italy

Divorces per 1,000 people, 2024

1.3

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

Divorces per 100 marriages, 2024

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 0.5 divorces per 1,000 people in Italy. In 2024 the rate was 1.3, which is higher.

The trend: divorces per 1,000 people

The trend: divorces per 100 marriages

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 1971 to 2024.

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