Just over 103,000 partnerships were dissolved in 2023. 99 per cent were divorces; the rest were civil partnerships. These are similar numbers before the Covid pandemic.
Divorce rates per 1,000 married individuals were nearly the same for both men and women.
Same-sex civil partnership dissolution rates were 7.4 for men and 11.2 for women per 1,000 civil partners.
The average length of marriages that ended in divorce was 12.7 years for opposite-sex couples. For male same-sex couples it was 7.2 years and 6.3 years for female same-sex couples.