Latest US divorce rate: 0.36%

The latest U.S. annual per capita divorce rate is 0.36% -- stated as 3.6 divorces per 1,000 population -- for the 12 months ending in January 2007. See "Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for January 2007.     NVSR Volume 56, Number 1."

The latest U.S. annual per capita divorce rate for a calendar year is also 0.36% -- stated as 3.6 per 1,000 population --  for 2006. See "Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2006.     NVSR Volume 55, Number 20."

Since there are two spouses in every divorce, these numbers are more intuitively useful for some purposes if you double them. A 3.6 per thousand annual per capita rate means that Zero-point-72 percent of Americans get divorced every year.

For more information on the details of these statistics, read the explanatory notes in the pdf documents linked-to above; and for further information after that, contact NCHS at births@cdc.gov.
Warning: These rates are calculated without information from California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Minnesota, which have failed to collect and/or report their divorce rates. The number of non-reporting states is up by two since 2004.

The NCHS seems to be posting their latest divorce and marriage rates at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm -- so you can check that site for the absolute latest.

Future releases in this annual volume the same monthly series of vital statistics reports will be displayed at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/55/55-pre.htm

Future annual volumes of the monthly vital statistics reports will be displayed at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm

The latest U.S. annual per capita divorce rate for a calendar year is also 0.36% -- stated as 3.6 per 1,000 population --  for 2006. See "Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2006.     NVSR Volume 55, Number 20."

Since there are two spouses in every divorce, these numbers are more intuitively useful for some purposes if you double them. A 3.6 per thousand annual per capita rate means that Zero-point-72 percent of Americans get divorced every year.

For more information on the details of these statistics, read the explanatory notes in the pdf documents linked-to above; and for further information after that, contact NCHS at births@cdc.gov.
Warning: These rates are calculated without information from California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Minnesota, which have failed to collect and/or report their divorce rates. The number of non-reporting states is up by two since 2004.

The NCHS seems to be posting their latest divorce and marriage rates at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm -- so you can check that site for the absolute latest.

Future releases in this annual volume the same monthly series of vital statistics reports will be displayed at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/55/55-pre.htm

Future annual volumes of the monthly vital statistics reports will be displayed at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm