Divorce Rate by country
Divorces per 1000 population per year.
Global trend
Mean stress score across all countries for which data is available, over the last 12 months.
Where the pressure is concentrated
The five most-affected and five least-affected countries on this indicator right now.
Most affected
- 1Sweden2.50 per 100029
- 2United States2.30 per 100023
- 3Australia2.10 per 100017
- 4Canada2.00 per 100014
- 5South Korea2.00 per 100014
Least affected
- 1South Africa0.60 per 10000
- 2Poland1.50 per 10000
- 3Mexico1.50 per 10000
- 4Japan1.50 per 10000
- 5Italy1.50 per 10000
Full ranking
All 25 tracked countries, ordered from most to least affected. Click any country to see its full composite breakdown.
| # | Country | Raw value | Stress score | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweden | 2.50 per 1000 | 28.6 | 2023-12-31 |
| 2 | United States | 2.30 per 1000 | 22.9 | 2023-12-31 |
| 3 | Australia | 2.10 per 1000 | 17.1 | 2023-12-31 |
| 4 | Canada | 2.00 per 1000 | 14.3 | 2023-12-31 |
| 5 | South Korea | 2.00 per 1000 | 14.3 | 2023-12-31 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 1.90 per 1000 | 11.4 | 2023-12-31 |
| 7 | Spain | 1.90 per 1000 | 11.4 | 2023-12-31 |
| 8 | France | 1.90 per 1000 | 11.4 | 2023-12-31 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 1.90 per 1000 | 11.4 | 2023-12-31 |
| 10 | Norway | 1.90 per 1000 | 11.4 | 2023-12-31 |
| 11 | New Zealand | 1.90 per 1000 | 11.4 | 2023-12-31 |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 1.80 per 1000 | 8.6 | 2023-12-31 |
| 13 | Israel | 1.80 per 1000 | 8.6 | 2023-12-31 |
| 14 | Turkey | 1.80 per 1000 | 8.6 | 2023-12-31 |
| 15 | UAE | 1.70 per 1000 | 5.7 | 2023-12-31 |
| 16 | Germany | 1.70 per 1000 | 5.7 | 2023-12-31 |
| 17 | Singapore | 1.70 per 1000 | 5.7 | 2023-12-31 |
| 18 | Brazil | 1.60 per 1000 | 2.9 | 2023-12-31 |
| 19 | Argentina | 1.00 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 20 | India | 0.10 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 21 | Italy | 1.50 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 22 | Japan | 1.50 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 23 | Mexico | 1.50 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 24 | Poland | 1.50 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 25 | South Africa | 0.60 per 1000 | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
Why it matters
Divorce Rate is a contributing indicator to the Social meta-index, one of the five dimensions of The Human Index composite. Higher raw value = more stress.
Movements in this indicator are tracked daily and feed into every country's composite score on the next cron cycle.
Source & methodology
Raw values are normalized to a 0–100 stress scale per the bounds documented in the codebase. See methodology for the full normalization and band-threshold derivation.