2.4
2023 (latest)
DIVORCE RATE
divorces per 1,000 population (reporting states) · 1970–2023 · CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System
3.5
1970
5.3
high · 1979
2.3
low · 2020
−31%
since 1970
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. CDC/NCHS NVSS. Rate is per 1,000 population of reporting areas only — California among others excluded most years (2017-2023 exclude CA, HI, IN, MN, NM). 2023 latest. 1970-1990 final rates from NCHS Advance Report of Final Divorce Statistics 1989-90 (MVSR 43-9S Table 1, all states); 1991-1996 NCHS provisional annual rates (MVSR annual summaries; NCHS ceased final divorce statistics in 1996); 1997-1999 rates exclude CA, CO, IN, LA (46 reporting states + DC) — the same reporting-states lineage the 2000+ series continues.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage-divorce.htm
- https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112483/cdc_112483_DS1.pdf
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/mvsr/mv41_12.pdf
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/mvsr/mv44_12.pdf
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/mvsr/mv46_12.pdf
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_19.pdf
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Long-Run-Indicators
Data
| Year | Divorce Rate | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.4 | +0% |
| 2022 | 2.4 | −4% |
| 2021 | 2.5 | +9% |
| 2020 | 2.3 | −15% |
| 2019 | 2.7 | −7% |
| 2018 | 2.9 | +0% |
| 2017 | 2.9 | −3% |
| 2016 | 3.0 | −3% |
| 2015 | 3.1 | −3% |
| 2014 | 3.2 | −3% |
| 2013 | 3.3 | −3% |
| 2012 | 3.4 | −6% |
| 2011 | 3.6 | +0% |
| 2010 | 3.6 | +3% |
| 2009 | 3.5 | +0% |
| 2008 | 3.5 | −3% |
| 2007 | 3.6 | −3% |
| 2006 | 3.7 | +3% |
| 2005 | 3.6 | −3% |
| 2004 | 3.7 | −3% |
| 2003 | 3.8 | −3% |
| 2002 | 3.9 | −3% |
| 2001 | 4.0 | +0% |
| 2000 | 4.0 | −2% |
| 1999 | 4.1 | −2% |
| 1998 | 4.2 | −2% |
| 1997 | 4.3 | +0% |
| 1996 | 4.3 | −2% |
| 1995 | 4.4 | −4% |
| 1994 | 4.6 | +0% |
| 1993 | 4.6 | −2% |
| 1992 | 4.7 | +0% |
| 1991 | 4.7 | +0% |
| 1990 | 4.7 | +0% |
| 1989 | 4.7 | −2% |
| 1988 | 4.8 | +0% |
| 1987 | 4.8 | −2% |
| 1986 | 4.9 | −2% |
| 1985 | 5.0 | +0% |
| 1984 | 5.0 | +0% |
| 1983 | 5.0 | −2% |
| 1982 | 5.1 | −4% |
| 1981 | 5.3 | +2% |
| 1980 | 5.2 | −2% |
| 1979 | 5.3 | +4% |
| 1978 | 5.1 | +2% |
| 1977 | 5.0 | +0% |
| 1976 | 5.0 | +4% |
| 1975 | 4.8 | +4% |
| 1974 | 4.6 | +7% |
| 1973 | 4.3 | +7% |
| 1972 | 4.0 | +8% |
| 1971 | 3.7 | +6% |
| 1970 | 3.5 | — |
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