Divorce Statistics In Malaysia 2016

This indicates average marriage dissolution is 250 cases daily.

Divorce statistics in malaysia 2016. In 1960 and 1980 a higher proportion of 20 somethings had a marriage end than in 2013. It is also obvious that the rate of divorce among muslim couples is steadily higher compared to those non muslim couples. According to the statistics provided by the department of shariah judiciary malaysia jksm and the department of islamic development jakim from january 1st up to july 10th 2016 48077 divorce cases were recorded. Many more people were in second or third marriages by their late 20s in 1960.

The results were interesting. In an article posted on the east asia forum in 2013 professor gavin jones of the asia research institute of the national university of singapore said divorce rates throughout east and south east asia appear to have been generally on the rise since the 1980s partly because the stigma attached to divorce appears to have faded. Figure 1 shows the graph of divorce rate in malaysia between muslim and non muslim couples for the period of 17 years from 1995 to 2010. From the graph it shows that the rate of divorce increases over the period of time.

Similarly non muslim divorces declined 3 4 per cent from 10 612 2016 to 10 256 2017. Consequently cdr decreased from 2 1 2016 to 2 0 2017 per 1 000 muslim population. The number of muslim divorces recorded in 2017 was 39 709 decreased 3 2 per cent as compared to 41 030 2016. For example if there are 500 divorces and 1 000 marriages in a given year in a given area the ratio would be one divorce for every two marriages e g.

However the crude divorce rate cdr remained at 1 6 per 1 000 population. A ratio of 0 50 50. This compares the number of divorces in a given year to the number of marriages in that same year the ratio of the crude divorce rate to the crude marriage rate. In 2016 crude divorce rates were highest in kazakhstan which was estimated at around three divorces per thousand people.

In 2016 there were a total of 3471 divorces registered. 11 search for date of marriage non muslim 90. This is a drop of 59 divorces when compared to the numbers of 2015. Out of the divorces registered in 2016 1341 divorces were registered in the family court and 2076 divorces were registered in magistrate courts.

The number of divorces improved by 3 2 per cent from 51 642 2016 to 49 965 2017.