Divorce Rate
Common statistics
When you hear about divorce rates, it is often presented in a certain way. For instance, you might hear that the divorce rate is around 2.9 out of 1000 people getting divorced. These numbers require a bit of comprehension to understand, afterwhich the person reading such a statement may begin questioning, how that statistic is applicable to the
average individual looking to get married.
The "2.9 out of 1000 people getting divorced" indicates the number of divorces per 1000 individuals in a given population within a year. It offers a snapshot of divorces relative to the population size.
While a high divorce rate number appears jarring at first, understand that such a number does nothing distinguish the cohort of marriage that it stems from and for what reason that might have arisen. This is especially important
considering the duration of said marriages. It also does nothing to illustrate the reasons and the potential changes in said reasons for initiating a divorce.
The most commonly reported annual statistics we can find are typically, duration of marriages that divorced, total number of marriages commenced, age group of brides and grooms (separately), age group of divorcees and perhaps
age differential of marriages. None of this is presented in a multifactorial manner, with time being the only common column/variable shared between datasets, making establishing any direct links between divorce and other factors
indirect, and therefore, relatively unreliable.
