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Divorce rates in Australia
Divorce rate in Australia in around 40%. Meaning, about 40 percent of marriages can be expected to end in divorce.
Adding a small fraction for marriage breakdowns which are never formalised by divorce,it is estimated that
about 43 per cent of marriages end in separation within 30 years of the marriage.
Divorce rate in Australia stands at around 3 divorces per 1000
marriages. Census records show that more than 55,000 divorces were granted
in 2001. During the same period around 103,000 marriages were registered.
Number of Divorces in Australia from 1938 to 1991
Source: Australian Historical Statistics and ABS
The 'no fault' provisions of the new Act enabled many people to divorce sooner than they would have done under the previous law, and led to a heaping of divorces into one year, 1976.
Some facts about Divorce rates in Australia
The divorce rate in Australia for second marriages is little higher than that of first marriages.
Unlilateral no-fault divorce legislation was introduced in Australia in
1975. There were 52,500 divorces granted in 1996, the second highest since
the record number of 63,230 in 1976 following the introduction of the
Family Law Act.
The median age at marriage has increased from 23.4 years for grooms and
21,1 years for brides in 1971 to 27.6 years for grooms and 25.2 for brides
in 1996.
Cohabitation before marriage has increased from about 18 per cent in 1975
to almost 60 per cent today.
Divorce Rates
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