The divorce rate in England and Wales in 2012

ByKatie Rainscourt March 11, 2014March 11, 2014

The Office of National Statistics has released its figures for divorce data in 2012, and advises us that the number of divorces in England and Wales increased by 0.5% to 118,140 compared with 117,558 in 2011.

Of those 118,140 divorcing couples the “fact” proven in the petition was as follows:

Year of divorce	Party to whom granted	Fact proven
		Total	Adultery	Behaviour	Desertion	Separation (2 years and consent)	Separation (5 years)	Others
		Total	Adultery	Behaviour	Desertion	Separation (2 years and consent)	Separation (5 years)	Others
2012	Husband	41,542	5,675	15,210	334	13,237	7,047	39
	Wife	76,400	10,320	41,248	385	16,973	7,231	243

I attach the figures for marriage and divorce rates between 1932 and 2012:

Number of marriages and divorces, 1932–2012
England and Wales

Year	Divorces	Marriages
1932	3,894	307,184
1933	4,042	318,191
1934	4,287	342,307
1935	4,069	349,536
1936	5,146	354,644
1937	4,886	359,160
1938	6,250	361,768
1939	8,254	439,694
1940	7,755	470,549
1941	6,368	388,921
1942	7,618	369,744
1943	10,012	296,432
1944	12,312	302,714
1945	15,634	397,626
1946	29,829	385,606
1947	60,254	401,210
1948	43,698	396,891
1949	34,856	375,041
1950	30,870	358,490
1951	28,767	360,624
1952	33,922	349,308
1953	30,326	344,998
1954	28,027	341,731
1955	26,816	357,918
1956	26,265	352,944
1957	23,785	346,903
1958	22,654	339,913
1959	24,286	340,126
1960	23,868	343,614
1961	25,394	346,678
1962	28,935	347,732
1963	32,052	351,329
1964	34,868	359,307
1965	37,785	371,127
1966	39,067	384,497
1967	43,093	386,052
1968	45,794	407,822
1969	51,310	396,746
1970	58,239	415,487
1971	74,437	404,737
1972	119,025	426,241
1973	106,003	400,435
1974	113,500	384,389
1975	120,522	380,620
1976	126,694	358,567
1977	129,053	356,954
1978	143,667	368,258
1979	138,706	368,853
1980	148,301	370,022
1981	145,713	351,973
1982	146,698	342,166
1983	147,479	344,334
1984	144,501	349,186
1985	160,300	346,389
1986	153,903	347,924
1987	151,007	351,761
1988	152,633	348,492
1989	150,872	346,697
1990	153,386	331,150
1991	158,745	306,756
1992	160,385	311,564
1993	165,018	299,197
1994	158,175	291,069
1995	155,499	283,012
1996	157,107	278,975
1997	146,689	272,536
1998	145,214	267,303
1999	144,556	263,515
2000	141,135	267,961
2001	143,818	249,227
2002	147,735	255,596
2003	153,065	270,109
2004	152,923	273,069
2005	141,322	247,805
2006	132,140	239,454
2007	128,131	235,367
2008	121,708	235,794
2009	113,949	232,443
2010	119,589	243,808
2011	117,558	247,890^P
2012	118,140	..

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