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Here's some context [^0]: > While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European co

Here's some context [^0]: > While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European countries alters the picture of the country as one unsettled by significant numbers of divorces. With nearly 1.7 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants Portugal has roughly the same divorce rate as Germany and the Netherlands. Interesting is furthermore that although marriages in Portugal tend to result in divorce lightly more often as in Luxembourg (80.3%), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg experienced a 0.6 point higher divorce rate. [^0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/612207/divorce-rates-in-european-countries-per-100-marriages/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/612207/divorce-rates-in-...

Ekaros 3y ago
Am I only one who has hard time to wrap my head around these numbers. Okay divorces per marriages is not bad. But divorces per 1000 inhabitants? Is that per year or what? Does the rate of marriages going lower or higher change either statistic?
- hwillis 3y ago
  > But divorces per 1000 inhabitants? Is that per year or what? yes. "Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+casamentos-531 https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+... Which is down from the peak and is an obvious inverse of the marriage rate: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/taxa+de+nupcialidade-530 https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/taxa+de+nupcialidade-530 which is at an all-time low. The only thing this 94% statistic represents is the decrease in marriages.