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About 2% of same-sex couples divorce annually, a similar rate as opposite-sex marriages. ... Black men and women had the highest divorce rates: 22.6 and 24.5, respectively.
White wife/Black husband marriages show twice the divorce rate of White wife/White husband couples by the 10th year of marriage, [25] whereas Black wife/White husband marriages are 44% less likely to end in divorce than White wife/White husband couples over the same period. [25]
For African Americans who do marry, the rate of divorce is higher than White Americans. While the trend is the same for both African Americans and White Americans, with at least half of marriages for the two groups ending in divorce, the rate of divorce tends to be consistently higher for African Americans. [71]
Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (Cycle VI), the likelihood of divorce for interracial couples to that of same-race couples was compared. Comparisons across marriage cohorts revealed that, overall, interracial couples have higher rates of divorce, particularly for those that married during the late 1980s. [95]
In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people. Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.
Over the past decade, both marriage and divorce rates nationally declined — but figures varied widely between states. Read The Marriage and Divorce Rate in Every State from Money Talks News.
This is divorces per 1,000 population per year. [1] For example, if a city has 10,000 people living in it, and 30 couples divorce in one year, then the crude divorce rate for that year is 3 divorces per 1,000 residents.
According to recent data from Forbes Advisor, Kentucky ranks fifth for divorce rates in the U.S. Per 1,000 married women in Kentucky in 2022, 19.52% were divorcing, and 12.6% of the total ...