Dataset(s): Divorces in England and Wales

Annual divorce numbers and rates, by duration of marriage, sex, to whom granted and reason, that took place in England and Wales.

Contact:
Demography team

Release date:
2 July 2025

Next release:
To be announced

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  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

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Correction See correction
We have corrected an error in Table 6b of the Divorces in England and Wales: 2023 dataset. Table 6b is an explanatory worksheet that contains a small extract of data from Table 6a. In the previous version, the figure for the 2005 marriage cohort’s 10th anniversary was incorrect. The corresponding figure in Table 6a was correct. The error occurred during processing. We apologise for this error.
17 July 2026 09:00