Mexico registers the highest number of divorces in the last 10 years

Mexico recorded the highest number of divorces of the last 10 years in 2022, when a total of 166,766 were recorded, an annual increase of 11.4%, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed this Wednesday.

The divorce rate per 1,000 inhabitants was also the highest since 2013, reaching 1.86, according to the autonomous institute’s report. The 2022 data is compared to the 149,675 divorces in 2021 and the index of 1.69.

Of the total number of divorces last year, only one 9.5% was resolved administratively and the 90.5% They resorted to judicial channels, the report detailed.

Regarding the reasons for the separation, the 66.5% were “uncaused divorces”followed “of mutual consent” with 31.7%and the “separation from the marital home for more than one year, with or without justified cause”, with 0.7%.

The average age of divorce for women was 40.6 years and for men was 43 years. The entities that registered the highest divorce rates per 1,000 inhabitants were Campeche with 4.8, Sinaloa with 3.7 and Nuevo León with 3.6.

The lowest were in Veracruz (0.76), Oaxaca (0.92) and Puebla (1.17). On the other hand, Inegi reported an annual increase of 11.9% in the number of new marriages, which reached 507,052, a figure higher than the 453,081 in 2021 and the highest in the last five years.

At the national level, there were 5.7 marriages per 1,000 inhabitants, the highest rate since 2020, when the covid-19 pandemic arrived. The highest rates were recorded in Quintana Roo (9.5), Sinaloa (7.52) and Guanajuato (7.3).

And the minor ones in Mexico City (3.77), Puebla (3.82) and Hidalgo (3.88). The Inegi reported that the average age at marriage has increased.

In men it changed from 29.8 years in 2013 to 34.1 in 2022, while in women it went, in the same period of time, from 26.9 years to 31.3. The autonomous institute also reported 5,829 same-sex marriages in 2022, of which 2,353 were between men and 3,476 between women.