Divorce demography

The divorce rate ( anglicism eigtl divorce rate ) is the ratio between divorces and marriages. One must always distinguish between the two calculation methods: 1 Man sets all marriages and all divorces in a given period in relation or second one sets the closed in a certain period of marriages and divorces in only their ratio.

The divorce rate has increased dramatically in Western societies in the 20th century.

As is clear from the statistics of the stat. Bundesamt ( in particular Figure 1 ) clearly shows the phenomenon that in the 1950s the divorce rate steadily declined, then since 1960-1975 slowly increased, then 1977/78 in the West and 1990-93 in the East a break with historical lows had. Furthermore, the increase in the 50 - year trend line is very low: The decline in the divorce rate in the 1950s was reversed only in the 1980s by the trend again. Thus economic and economic conditions seem to play a major role, but rather legal and political circumstances: The first slump coincided with the introduction of the new divorce law, the second with the reunification and thus the abolition of liberal divorce consequential legal norms of the FGB in favor of far-reaching consequences of divorce, of the Civil Code. From 1950-2005 the " proportion of divorces at all divorces " of just under 30 % has increased to about 38%, according to this graph, that is a very moderate average rate of increase.

However, recent statistics show partially again declining divorce rates. Factors that influence the rate of divorce among other things:

• The existing legal situation, see also Marriage Law Family Law
• Life expectancy
• The degree of mobility and anonymity in a society
• Social and individual norms
• Economic factors that ensure or prevent the appropriate livelihood of those affected after a divorce. It takes in times of crisis, not only the divorce rate from, but also indicates an increased level of satisfaction in the existing partnerships on average.

Risk of divorce and sickle function

Risk of divorce is called the mode of divorces per year of marriage in the average marriage. Its maximum value is shown in the third year of marriage. Is referred to due to the shape of a sickle function. It is an aggregation of individual lives and marriage is a life-cycle effect dar. Nationwide held these marriages on average 9.5 years (arithmetic mean ).

The sickle function is compared to the Cumulative Inertia Axiom.

Divorce rate in Germany (2007)

The number of divorces has fallen by 2% over the previous year in 2007. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office ( Destatis), were divorced almost 187 100 marriages in Germany in 2007; 2006 were registered 190 900 divorces. As in the previous year were thus divorced in 2007 of 1,000 existing marriages ten, 1992, there were seven and eleven have been marriages in the years 2002 to 2005.

From 1992 to 2003 the number of divorces had risen with the exception of 1999, stable from 135,000 to 214,000, being temporarily in the new states in the years 1992 to 1996, very few marriages were divorced. Since 2004, recorded in Germany a decrease in divorces.

For the divorced in 2007 marriages of divorce in 103,100 cases of the woman ( 55.1 %) and 68,000 cases ( 36.3 %) was provided by the man. In the remaining cases both spouses applied for divorce. Compared to 2006, the number of requested only by the man divorces fell by 1.8%, asked only of the woman divorce applications declined by 3.3%.

In the majority of all divorces, the spouses are separated at least one year. 157,500 marriages ( 84.2 %) were in 2007 after one year of separation divorced, these were 4,000 marriages, or 2.5 % less than in 2006 In 3000 divorce, the partners had been separated less than a year ( -. 10.3% over the previous year ). The number of divorces after three years of separation has increased slightly to 25,600 ( 2%).

2007, the average duration of marriage at divorce 13.9 years. 2006, the partners had been married on average 13.7 years and 11.5 years in 1990. Thus, the trend of recent years continues a longer duration of marriage to divorce.

Of the married couples divorced in 2007, almost half had children under the age of 18. Compared to 2006, the number of affected by their parents' divorce minor children from 148,600 to 145,000 and thus decreased by 2.5%.

Divorce rate in Switzerland ( as of 2012)

The divorce rate in Switzerland was 51.04 % in 2012. From 43300 22100 marriages divorces were counted in 2010.