# EU countries by crude divorce rate, 2017

All 26 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2017, so the places are comparable. 1 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `divorce_rate`
- Unit: per 1,000 inhabitants
- Definition: Divorces granted during the year per 1,000 residents (average population of the year). EU countries: divorces registered in the country, as compiled by Eurostat; legal separations and annulments are not divorces.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Crude divorce rate per 1,000 persons (demo_ndivind) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_ndivind/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
- Citation: Eurostat. Crude divorce rate per 1,000 persons (demo_ndivind). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_ndivind/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/divorce-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | per 1,000 inhabitants |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Latvia | 3.1 |
| 2 | Lithuania | 3 |
| 3 | Denmark | 2.6 |
| 4 | Estonia | 2.5 |
| 5 | Czechia | 2.4 |
| 5 | Finland | 2.4 |
| 5 | Sweden | 2.4 |
| 8 | Cyprus | 2.2 |
| 9 | Portugal | 2.1 |
| 9 | Spain | 2.1 |
| 11 | Belgium | 2 |
| 11 | Luxembourg | 2 |
| 13 | Germany | 1.9 |
| 13 | Hungary | 1.9 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 1.9 |
| 16 | Austria | 1.8 |
| 16 | Greece | 1.8 |
| 16 | Slovakia | 1.8 |
| 19 | Poland | 1.7 |
| 20 | Romania | 1.6 |
| 21 | Bulgaria | 1.5 |
| 21 | Croatia | 1.5 |
| 21 | Italy | 1.5 |
| 24 | Slovenia | 1.2 |
| 25 | Ireland | 0.7 |
| 25 | Malta | 0.7 |