LATEST U.S. DIVORCE RATE: Now lowest since 1970: 0.7% or 3.5 divorces per 1,000 people

National Vital Statistics Report Volume 57 Number 11.

This is for the "year" of July '07 through June '08. Continuing the general slow, steady downward trend.

Comments

[Daniel Rand]

Hi,

The proper way to find the rate is divide the number of divorces (3.5) by the number of marriages, (7.6). The result is 0.46, or 46%. Not 0.7%.

[John Crouch]

No, the statisticians all say that dividing the number of divorces occurring by the number of marriages occurring in the same year is NOT a proper way to get any useful figure. Although in the very long run, if rates remained stable, I should think it would be accurate. These "per capita" rates that the government reports every year don't tell you much that intuitively is meaningful; but they are the standard way of reporting the divorce rates and so are useful for comparing different times and places. Now, a per capita rate that divided by the TOTAL MARRIED POPULATION would be useful, but for some reason no one calculates and reports that rate very often.

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