Press release No. 237 of 11 July 2017
WIESBADEN – In Germany, 162,397 married couples divorced in 2016, representing a decrease of just under 1,000, or 0.6%, on the previous year. In most cases, the divorce was preceded by a one-year period of separation of the partners (82.6%). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that 51.3% of the applications for divorce were filed by the wife, 40.9% by the husband, and the rest by both.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Divorces in Germany (12631) in the GENESIS-Online database