Marital Stability on the Rise: 22% Decrease in First-Year Divorces

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KUWAIT CITY, Sept 24: In a good indication of the efforts made by the government, various state agencies, public benefit associations, and specialists to confront the phenomenon of divorce and not destroy the family entity, statistics issued by the Ministry of Justice showed a decrease in the divorce rate in the “first year of marriage” in Kuwait during the year 2022 by 21.9% compared to the year 2021.

The statistics, a copy of which has been obtained by Al-Anba, according to the statistical book prepared by the Statistics and Research Department of the Information Technology and Statistics Sector in the Ministry of Justice, indicated a decrease in the number of divorce cases in the first year of marriage during the past year from 948 cases in 2021 to 740 cases in 2022 by an amount 208 cases.

The statistics show marriages in Kuwait reached 13,656 in 2022 from 16,393 the previous year, 66.9% of which are for a Kuwaiti who married a citizen, and 17.5% of both spouses are non-Kuwaiti.

The percentage of divorces for those married from one year to less than 5 years is the highest, followed by the percentage of those married for less than a year, and it decreases as the duration of married life increases.

Spouses with a university degree have the highest divorce rates in Kuwait, at 30.4% of the total divorce cases, followed by those with intermediate qualifications, at 22.1%.

Almost 11.4% of citizens married non-Kuwaiti women and 4.2% of female citizens married non-Kuwaiti men during the past year.

The number of “divorce before consummation” cases decreased from 738 cases in 2021 to 610 cases in 2022, by 128 cases, or a rate of 17.3%.

Divorce cases for “couples with one or more wives remaining married” decreased from 2,787 cases in 2021 to 1,365, with 1,422 cases, or a rate of 51.0%.

According to educational status, for couples, the percentage of marriages with university qualifications reached 42.5%, then those with post-secondary diploma qualifications at 20.1%, then high school holders at 19.5, then those with intermediate qualifications at 13.1%. As for the rest of the educational cases, their percentage reached 4.8% of the total cases. marriage.

As for wives, the percentage of marriages with university degree holders reached 52.5%, then those with secondary qualifications at 23.4%, then those with post-secondary diploma qualifications at 15.1%, then those with intermediate qualifications at 60%. As for the rest of the educational cases, their percentage reached 3.0% of the total marriages.

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