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Divorce statistics in Netherlands

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I was just curious. I wanted to look at Divorce statistics of Netherlands. I Googled (yes, I still feel its a good verb) the info and landed at this page

It says
Divorces (as percentage of marriages) = 38.3
Divorces (as per 1000 population per year) = 2.04

I tried some reverse math and reached at this number
5.38 marriages take place every year for every 1000 population.

Does this finding say anything? Is it realistic?

Find the flaw in my math, if any.


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Anonymous said…
There is a flaw in your calculation. You have not counted that a marriage actually means two people. So the number of marriages per 1000 people would be 2.66, alternatively, we can say 5.32 people per 1000 would be getting married every year.
May 25, 2008 at 4:50 PM
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