{"id": 1005472, "name": "Share of divorces by selected anniversary years", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2025-01-15T10:07:51.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-04-22T21:23:32.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1963-2017", "datasetId": 6890, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "cumulative_percentage", "catalogPath": "grapher/ons/2025-01-12/divorces_by_year/divorces#cumulative_percentage", "descriptionShort": "The cumulative percentage of marriages that have ended in divorce by the anniversary year of marriage.", "descriptionFromProducer": "The decrease in the number of divorces between 2017 and 2018, and the increase between 2018 and 2019 can be partly attributed to a delay in the processing of divorce applications by divorce centres. A backlog of divorce petitions made in 2017 were not processed until 2018, resulting in fewer completed divorces in 2018 and more completed divorces in 2019.\n\nDivorces data for 2022 and marriages data for 2020 are the latest data which have been used in the production of this table. Marriages data for 2021 are not currently available and so this table is not complete.", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "14206282579740648226", "metadataChecksum": "-3580767373293567374", "datasetName": "Share of marriages in England and Wales that ended in divorce by 5,10,20, and 30 years after marriage", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-01-12", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Marriages & Divorces"]}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 371357, "name": "< 10 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371356, "name": "< 20 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371360, "name": "< 30 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371361, "name": "< 40 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371359, "name": "< 5 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371358, "name": "< 50 years", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 2402, "title": "Divorces in England and Wales", "description": "Annual divorce numbers and rates, by duration of marriage, sex, to whom granted, and reason.", "producer": "UK Office for National Statistics", "citationFull": "Office for National Statistics (ONS), released 22 February 2024, ONS website, dataset, Divorces in England and Wales, UK. Retrieved 12 January 2025.", "attributionShort": "UK ONS", "urlMain": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/divorce/datasets/divorcesinenglandandwales", "urlDownload": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/divorce/datasets/divorcesinenglandandwales/2022/2022divorcesworkbookupdatedfinal.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2025-01-12", "datePublished": "2024-02-22", "license": {"url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "name": "Open Government Licence v3.0"}}]}