Divorce in numbers: How do divorce rates in Ireland compare to those in Europe and elsewhere?

Here's how Ireland stacks up against other countries around the world ahead of Friday's divorce referendum.

Image: Shutterstock/Roman Motizov Image: Shutterstock/Roman Motizov IT MAY NOT have picked up the same momentum as the last two referenda but this Friday, voters will be asked to make a decision on where Ireland stands when it comes to divorce.

The government, and major opposition parties, have thrown their support behind changing the constitutional terms of divorce, after Minister and former family law solicitor Josepha Madigan first put forward a private members bill in 2016. The 2015 figures are the latest figures available for all countries and the most appropriate for comparison purposes.While Ireland currently has a four-year minimum wait period before a divorce can be finalised, other countries are much less strict, and in some cases a marriage can be dissolved within just a few months.

On the other end of the scale, married couples in countries like Italy must wait three years to divorce, provided the divorce is by mutual consent. Without both parties agreeing to the divorce, the proceedings can take much longer. The US has one of the highest rates of divorce in the world at 3.2 divorces per 1,000 people – that’s according to lawyers who say one divorce happens every 13 seconds.So how does the divorce rate look across Europe?

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