Marriage dissolutions; due to divorce and death
| Periods | Marriages dissolved due to divorce Average duration of marriage at divorce (year) |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 14.8 |
| Source: CBS. | |
Dataset is not available.
This table includes the most important key figures on marriage dissolutions due to death and divorce among the registered population of the Netherlands.
Excluding dissolutions due to ending registered partnerships.
Data available from: 1950
Status of the figures:
All data recorded in this table are final data.
Changes per 17 August 2023:
Data of 2022 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
In the last quarter of 2024 final figures of 2023 will be added in this publication.
Description topics
- Marriages dissolved due to divorce
- Excluding dissolutions due to ending registered partnerships other than by death of the partner.
Divorce:
Dissolution of the marriage pronounced by a judge on the basis of legal grounds. The divorce comes into force once it has been recorded in the municipal population register. Until September 1994: divorces granted by Dutch courts and entered in the municipal registers. From October 1994: divorces in which at least one of the partners is recorded in the register of a Dutch municipality.- Average duration of marriage at divorce
- Average duration of marriage (in years) at the time the divorce is granted.
Average marriage duration:
The arithmetic mean of all marriage durations.
Marriage duration:
The duration of the marriage in years calculated as the difference between the year of observation and the year in which the marriage was contracted.