According to the UN, the country with the highest divorce rate in the world is the Maldives with 10.97 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants per year. This is followed by the Belarus with 4.63 and the United States wih 4.34.
With a divorce rate of 1.1 per 1,000 people, Slovenia is tied with Panama and Tajikistan. This statistic has fluctuated over the past 20 years in Slovenia, generally increasing, but the country still has one of the lowest divorce rates in the world.
The Maldives has the highest divorce rate in the world, with 5.52 divorces per 1,000 people per year.
Statistics reveal that up to 33% of all Australian marriages are expected to end in divorce [1], and countless more relationships fall by the way side.
It is no surprise, then, that marital infidelity is a leading cause of divorce.
If you're looking to make sure you've got a long and healthy marriage, Rome, Italy, is your best bet. The country has a divorce rate of only 30.7 percent (which is really impressive considering most country's hover around 50) and has an average length of 18 years.
The racial group with the lowest divorce rate was Asian-Americans, with only 18 percent of women and 16 percent of men reporting that they have been divorced or married more than once.
A 2015 study by the American Sociological Association revealed that women initiate 69 percent of all divorces in the U.S. Further, the same study found that college-educated women initiate divorce at an even higher rate of 90 percent.
According to the Economist, couples in Italy stay together longer than any other country evaluated. Istat dives into these numbers a little deeper, noting that the average marriage lasts 15 years up until separation or 18 up until divorce.
Recording Longest Marriages
The longest marriage recorded is an emerald wedding anniversary (90 years) between Karam and Kartari Chand, in the United Kingdom. Karam and Kartari Chand married in 1925 and died in 2016 and 2019 respectively. Guinness World Records published its first edition in 1955.
In Georgia and Seychelles, even foreigners are permitted to marry. The process is simple for couples who know what they're doing. International couples can marry in both Georgia and Seychelles, despite the fact that they are from different countries and have different cultural customs.
In 2020, the median length from marriage to separation in Australia was 8.4 years. In the same year, the median duration of marriage to divorce was 12.1 years.
Child marriage among girls is most common in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and the 10 countries with the highest rates are found in these two regions. Niger has the highest overall prevalence of child marriage in the world. However, Bangladesh has the highest rate of marriage involving girls under age 15.
Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (31). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
Among the six major religious communities in India, Jain and Sikh women have the lowest separation or divorce rates at 6.3 per 1,000 ever married women.
Catholic. 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.