Russia by the Numbers: What Do the Country’s Marriage and Divorce Rates Look Like?


Where do people get married more often?
Where do people get married more often?
Number of marriages and divorces in Russia, in the thousands, 2017 (Rosstat data, 2018)
Marriages — 1050
Divorces — 611
On average, there are 58 divorces per 100 marriages.
Russian regions with the smallest number of divorces per 100 marriages, 2017
There are less than 50 divorces per 100 marriages in 8 regions:
The Chechen Republic (15 per 100)
Republic of Ingushetia (19 per 100)
Republic of Tyva (25 per 100)
Russian regions with the smallest number of divorces per 10,000 citizens, 2017:
The Chechen Republic, 8
Republic of Ingushetia, 8
Republic of Dagestan, 15
Russian regions with the largest number of marriages per 10,000 citizens, 2017:
Sevastopol, 101
St. Petersburg, 99
Kamchatka Krai, 88