Which countries have the highest divorce rates in the world?

Where couples don't really have to wait for death...

Where six out of ten marriages end in divorce

Where couples don't really have to wait for death...

Til death do us part? Think again. In millions of marriages, it's a judge, not death, that does the parting. But which country leads the pack in divorces?

Belgium tops the heartbreak charts

According to 'Business Insider', Belgium is the world leader in divorce rates, hitting a staggering 71% based on 2023 data.

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Also high stats

Trailing closely behind are Portugal, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, three countries where the divorce rate hits 65%.

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Where six out of ten marriages end in divorce

Meanwhile, Spain takes the fifth spot with a divorce rate of 61%.

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The concept of love has changed

Yes, in all these countries, there are more marriages that end in separation than those that last a lifetime. Times have changed, and eternal love has become harder to find... or fight for.

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On the flip side

On the other end of the spectrum, we find Chile, with a meager divorce rate of just 3%.

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The raw hearts (and data)

If we switch our gaze to global divorce statistics, it's the United States that heads this dubious competition of disillusionment, with just over 630,500 divorces in 2020, according to Statista data.

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Just slightly over half

But to put it in perspective, the percentage of legal separations in the United States is slightly above 50%.

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Normalization

Russia occupies the second place in the total number of divorces, with more than 564,700 separations, while Germany, in third place, had just over 143,800 broken couples, according to the data.

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Thousands of divorces every day

Following Russia and Germany, Turkey appears with 136,570, France with 128,043, Ukraine with 119,838, United Kingdom with 110,797, South Korea with 106,500, Spain with 77,200, and Italy with 66,662

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The leading cause of divorce...

Groucho Marx used to say that marriage is the leading cause of divorce and, obviously, it will continue to be so for a long time

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