10 countries with the highest divorce rates

And guess what? The US isn't #1!!!

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It's an interesting slideshow. Brief, and you'll learn some geography and why marriages around the world aren't as prone to last in certain areas....

Interesting Annie.

I did know in Puerto Rico for example it was very common to be in your early to mid-20s and already be divorced.

Neat seeing the causes behind the stats. It seems they do have many common factors though too, such as youth and financial situations.

Isle of Man is number four!?

But that place is tiny... I can only imagine what must be going on there.

Yeah really interesting, thanks for sharing Annie

The other thing that is not taken into account is the fact that many people in the USA are in common-law relationships and the statistics do not reflect those break-up rates.

In the UK the divorce rate is something like 1 in 2.

Not according to that poll, I mean it's got the Isle of Man there so it's not excluding areas of the British Isles.

I think that poll is calculating people who are divorced as a percentage of the population, and not what percentage of marriages end in divorce. There's a big difference between those.

not that these figures apply to any one person's case anyway, but wouldn't knowing which countries had the lowest rate of remarriage be at least as statistically relevant, if not more so?

I think the link means per 1000 / per year.

I meant over a lifetime.

I think the over a lifetime statistic is more revealing.

That's more informative than the per 1000 people statistic, which strikes me as a very odd way of measuring divorces, really.

Crude statistics usually aren't very informative, but they're great for skewing numbers to make things look a certain way.

Refined divorce rate statistics generally measure the percentage of divorce per 1,000 married women that are 15 and older. No use counting the children, the priests, cows, chickens, etc.

it goes without saying that results vary by individual, but priests and chickens aside (please!), i still think that divorce rate minus remarriage rate should be considered more relevant than the former by itself.