While the number of marriages in Iran, too, increased during the period between 2019 and 2020 by 4.4%, reaching 556,731 cases, the divorce rates rose by 3.6%, reaching 183,193 cases. This means that in 2020, for every 100 registered marriages, 32.9 divorces occurred.
Divorce is often a consequence of social transformation and modernity [2], especially in countries embracing increased individualism [3], and the phenomenon can lead to a number of physical, mental, and social complications for families, children, and society as a whole [4]. Iran has been no exception to this trend.
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This shows how many divorces have occurred for every 100 marriages. In the first half of 2020 the ratio stood at 28.7 percent for the whole of Iran. Alborz province had the highest ratio, at 46.1 percent, followed by Tehran and Mazandaran at 44 and 42 percent.
The Iranian Civil Code also reflects deep gender inequalities in its divorce law (Arts. 1120-1157). With only a few exceptions, a husband can divorce his wife “whenever he wishes to do so” (Art. 1133).
Vatican City is a Catholic-run city-state governed by the Pope. Deeply Catholic as it is, it does not allow citizens to divorce. Surprising very few people. The Vatican is the smallest country in the world, covering approximately 100 acres with a permanent population of 842 all-Catholic residents.
Adultery. Adultery (zina-e-mohsen) is punishable by 100 lashes for unmarried people and by death on the fourth offense. It is punishable by death by stoning (under moratorium since 2002, officially replaced in 2012, by an unspecified punishment) for married people and in all cases of incest.
Nearly 50% of marriages in Kuwait end in divorce, a higher proportion than in the US. And one-third of marriages result in divorce in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Russia Divorce & Family Law
Russia has some of the world's most liberal family laws and the divorce rate in the country is high compared to other nations. Getting a divorce in Russia can take no more than a few weeks and you can sometimes end your marriage in a single court procedure.
While many Iraqis are heading to courthouses to get married, tens of thousands of others are divorcing every year in a deeply conservative nation where break-up rates have risen. In the nation of 42 million people, more than 73,000 couples divorced in 2021.
The crude divorce rate (divorces per 1,000 Australian residents) was 2.2 divorces per 1,000 residents in 2021, up from 1.9 in 2020. The total number of divorces granted in 2021 was 56,244, the highest number of divorces recorded since 1976.
Slovenia. Slovenia is one of the easiest countries in the world to file for divorce, due to its employment of a no-fault system, allowing couples to file for divorce without citing a reason they would need to prove.
(2012) reported what they described as psychological causes (such as personality factors) in 96.3% of divorces, social and cultural factors (such as family interference and educational differences) in 87.3%, sexual problems in 88%, violence in 84.3%, and economic factors in 80.3%.
Iran Open Data also reports that in the last eight years, on average 21 percent of women who got married were aged 17 or younger at the time. Under-15s accounted for five percent of the total in the same period. But in Ardebil in 2021, some 55 percent of all marriages recorded in 2021 involved girls aged under 18.
In Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates more than a third of marriages end in divorce. In Kuwait almost half do, a higher rate than America's. The pattern of divorce is changing, too.
According to research by the Pew Research Center, Catholics had one of the lowest incidences of divorce, with 19 percent having been divorced out of 4,752 interviewed.
Guatemala has the lowest divorce rate out of all the countries globally, boasting only 0.3 divorces for every 1,000 population. The law in Guatemala allows marriages for girls of 14 and boys of 16-18 years old.
But white Conservative Protestants and Black Protestants are more likely than the average American to be divorced, with 17.2 percent and 15.7 percent of their populations being currently divorced, respectively. Indeed, Evangelical Protestants are more likely to be divorced than Americans who claim no religion.
Although these people may eventually find partners, their new families are unlikely to have their own biological children. Concurrently, family stability is losing ground. The divorce rate is on the rise: from 5% to 12% among Jews in the past 50 years, up two and a half times.
Lebanese citizens will often move between sects to facilitate a divorce. Couples from the Maronite sect, for instance, the courts of which forbid the annulment of marriage in all but the most extreme circumstances, might turn instead to the Catholic or Orthodox sects, which allow the annulment of marriages.
The Qur'an promotes reconciliation, through negotiated settlements between the spouses themselves or the use of arbitrators from their families. However, when “mutual good treatment” is not possible, there should be an amicable parting. Thus, the Qur'an treats divorce as something permitted but not laudable.
Another thing that is worth mentioning is that Iran's law does not allow Iranian unmarried couples to live together or check into a hotel. It states people of the opposite sex are not allowed to be alone together unless they are family members or married.
The issuance of permission to marry an Iranian woman with a foreign national has been delegated to the Ministry of the Interior of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In practice, this means that Iranian women must have the right to marry non-Iranian Muslims.
In Iran, holding hands has become increasingly popular especially in big cities and among younger generations. Islamic religious police prohibits public display of affection.