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Divorce rates in Shanghai and Beijing, China's two most populated economic centres, have been steadily rising since 2005 with it reaching 30% in 2012. [46] In 2016, divorce rates rose by 8.3% from 2015 to 4.2 million. [47] At the same time, in 2017, marriage rates have declined since 2013 to 8.3%, down from a peak of 9.9% in 2013. [47]
There are no official figures for war brides in World War I. One report estimated that 25,000 Canadian servicemen married British women during World War I. In World War II, approximately 48,000 women married Canadian servicemen overseas. By 31 March 1948, the Canadian government had transported about 43,500 war brides and 21,000 children to Canada.
A USC U.S.-China Institute article reports that the divorce rate in 2006 was about 1.4/1000 people, about twice what it was in 1990 and more than three times what it was in 1982. Still, the divorce rate in China is less than half of that in the United States. [31]
In 2010, the 1.96 million couples applying for divorce in 2010 represented a rate 14% higher than the year before and doubled from ten years ago. [3] Despite the rising divorce rate, marriage is still thought of as a natural part of the life course and as a responsibility of good citizenship in China. [4]
Randal Olson is the one who analyzed the stats from Emory, making a graph that shows couples with a 5-year gap in age are 18 percent more likely to divorce, and those with a 30-year gap in age are ...
Although divorce was now legally recognized, thousands of women lost their lives for attempting to divorce their husbands and some committed suicide when the right to divorce was withheld. [73] Divorce, once seen as a rare act during the Mao era (1949–1976), has become more common with rates continuing to increase. [ 74 ]
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This measures the number of divorces per 1,000 women married to men, so that all unmarried persons are left out of the calculation. [1] For example, if that same city of 10,000 people has 3,000 married women, and 30 couples divorce in one year, then the refined divorce rate is 10 divorces per 1,000 married women.