Highest divorce rate
Who
Maldives
Where
Maldives (Maldives)
When
2002

According to the UN, the country with the highest divorce rate in the world is the Maldives with 10.97 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants per year. This is followed by the Belarus with 4.63 and the United States wih 4.34.

Rank

Country

Divorces per 1,000 inhabitants per year

1

Maldives

10.97

2

Belarus

4.63

3

United States

4.34

4

Cuba

3.72

5

Estonia

3.65

6

Panama

3.61

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Puerto Rico

3.61

8

Ukraine

3.56

9

Russia

3.42

10

Antigua and Barbuda

3.40

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