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chishaku | 2 years ago

Is the data correct?

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hwillis|2 years ago

No. "Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages:

https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+...

Which is down from the peak and is an obvious inverse of the marriage rate:

https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/taxa+de+nupcialidade-530

which is at an all-time low. The number of divorces has been decreasing for 24 years:

https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/divorcios-323

And the only thing this 94% statistic represents is the decrease in marriages.