Current Events > Guess the divorce rate in Portugal

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https://x.com/theglobal_index/status/1702887905352716570?s=46&t=pGlQy9QzYotcsUa1DNrknw

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You might as well not get married in Portugal!

Culture, Social stigma, religion, the ease of getting a divorce, and economic stability are pretty big factors.

India's domestic abuse rate is really fucked up with almost no way out.

Damn, lol.

Also if Ukraine kould turn it down just a notch, that'd be great.

50% is already to high but once you reach 70 or even freaking 90% then it's time to just do away with marriage entirely.

So I'm going to step in before the entirety of CE makes a fool of themselves and I question why I even come here.

That statistic is not the "divorce rate". Divorce rate would be the percentage of marriages that end in divorce in general.

That number comes from a simple ratio, done in 2020 during peak COVID restrictions, for marriages and divorces. So basically how many divorces divided by how many marriages. As you probably expect, there weren't a whole lot of marriages during that year, with everyone postponing them because you were literally not allowed to have gatherings. Divorces, however, were fine and probably even increased due to the stresses of the pandemic and lockdown.

Not to mention a myriad of other factors that contribute to this number. Population age distribution in Portugal being older, younger people getting married less often even when living with someone, etc.

Fun fact, if there had been a couple less marriages and a couple more divorces, the stats could say the divorce percentage was 102% according to that methodology. Maybe that would be enough to snap people out of the idea that this number somehow means 94% of marriages end in divorce, which should be obvious to everyone, but alas.

Link_HT posted...

the stats could say the divorce percentage was 102% according to that methodology.

"yeah we went to the courthouse and they were all 'soz we're out of marriage apps so you're getting divorced :('"

Link_HT posted...

So I'm going to step in before the entirety of CE makes a fool of themselves and I question why I even come here.

That statistic is not the "divorce rate". Divorce rate would be the percentage of marriages that end in divorce in general.

That number comes from a simple ratio, done in 2020 during peak COVID restrictions, for marriages and divorces. So basically how many divorces divided by how many marriages. As you probably expect, there weren't a whole lot of marriages during that year, with everyone postponing them because you were literally not allowed to have gatherings. Divorces, however, were fine and probably even increased due to the stresses of the pandemic and lockdown.

Not to mention a myriad of other factors that contribute to this number. Population age distribution in Portugal being older, younger people getting married less often even when living with someone, etc.

Fun fact, if there had been a couple less marriages and a couple more divorces, the stats could say the divorce percentage was 102% according to that methodology. Maybe that would be enough to snap people out of the idea that this number somehow means 94% of marriages end in divorce, which should be obvious to everyone, but alas.

yeah as soon as I saw it I was like "there has to be more to this"

What baffles me the most is that some random account can just spew numbers with no source, no methodology, no nothing, and people will just roll with it. Yeah, 94%, that seems plausible...

wtf, how do they even have a population

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In case anyone still cares after I derailed the clickbait, the actual divorce rate is around 60% in Portugal, according to their own data institute. Still crazy high, but at least believable.

https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+casamentos-531

I know the stats are fake as fuck, but India being at 1% is much more of a red flag

DKBananaSlamma posted...

wtf, how do they even have a population

wat

DKBananaSlamma posted...

wtf, how do they even have a population

plenty of unmarried 'Christian' girls popping out babies all over the world

thronedfire2 posted...

plenty of unmarried 'Christian' girls popping out babies all over the world

In plenty of place they've even got no legal choice once it's in the oven.
But only in underdeveloped countries. The developed world permits abortion as a confidential medical procedure.

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