More people living happily ever after

Spain registered 92,344 demands for marital dissolution in 2023, 3% less than those registered in 2022, according to data collected by the Statistics Service of the General Council of the Judiciary.

Listen to this article

52,803 consensual divorces were registered, 4.2 percent less than the previous year; non-consensual divorces, 36,082, barely changed, with a reduction of 0.5 percent; consensual separations, 2,369, decreased by 8.2% and non-consensual separations, 1,039, decreased by 11.5 percent.

Annulments went from 65 in 2022 to 50 in 2023. The number of dissolution demands per 100,000 inhabitants in Spain was 192.1.

The highest rates, above the national average, were in the Canary Islands, with 247.3 requests for marital dissolution per 100,000 inhabitants; Valencian Community, with 223.1; Balearic Islands, with 213.9; Murcia, with 204.3; Andalusia, with 198.9; Castilla–La Mancha, with 195.7 and Catalonia, with 194.9.

On the contrary, the lowest rates occurred in the Basque Country, with 157.3 claims per 100,000 inhabitants; Castilla y León, with 158.2; Madrid, with 160.9; Extremadura, with 179.4 and Cantabria, with 184.7.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the number of lawsuits for marital dissolutions, annulments, separations and divorces decreased by 1.4 percent compared to the same quarter of 2022.

Between October and December of last year, only non-consensual divorce claims experienced a year-on-year increase. 10,337 non-consensual divorce applications were filed, a figure that represents an increase of 1.1 percent. However, the 14,453 consensual divorce applications represent 2.1 percent less than in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The post More people living happily ever after appeared first on Spain Today – Breaking Spanish News, Sport, and Information.