Elizabeth McLaren
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Telephone: +44 (0)1329 444110
Categories: Population, Families, Marriages, Cohabitations, Civil Partnerships and Divorces, Divorces
Frequency of release: Annually
Language: English
Geographical coverage: England and Wales
Geographical breakdown: Country
These tables present data on divorces taking place in England and Wales. The tables contain data for dissolutions and annulments of marriage by previous marital status of persons divorcing, sex and age of persons divorcing, children of couples divorced and facts proven at divorce and to whom granted.
For information on data quality, legislation and procedures relating to divorces statistics, please see Divorces Metadata and Divorces Summary Quality Report.
There is a lookup table to show how the current divorce tables relate to former Series FM2 tables.
The Vital Statistics: Population and Health Reference Tables provide annual divorce data for the United Kingdom and its constituent countries.
Annual and quarterly divorce statistics are also available from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The total number of divorces is similar to ONS but does not match exactly. A statement about these differences is published on the ONS website.
For data for other UK countries please see the latest divorce statistics for Scotland and the latest divorce statistics for Northern Ireland.
We welcome feedback on the content, format and relevance of this release. The Health and Life Events (HLED) User Engagement Strategy (95.1 Kb Pdf) outlines the divisional approach to user engagement.
These National Statistics are produced to high professional standards and released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.