The rate of divorce in Brazil reached its highest level in 26 years in 2010

The rate of divorce in Brazil last year was 1.8 cases for every thousand people from more than 20 years, its highest level since 1984, when statistics began to be measured, said yesterday the Government.

Divorces rose a 36.8 per cent in a year to move from 174.747 cases in 2009 to 243.224 in 2010, bringing the rate went up 0.4 percentage points, according to the statistics of the Civil Registry was quoted by the State Brazilian Institute of geography and statistics (IBGE).

The rate of divorce last year was more than three times higher than 0.5 registered in 1984.

The index separations fell from 0.8 cases per thousand people from more than 20 years in 2009 to 0.5 in 2010, its lowest level in 26 years.

The increase in divorces and separations reduction is a consequence of the adoption of a law that reduced the legal time limits required to ensure that a couple obtained the divorce.

The register statistics u000aCivil showed also that women remain where more obtained the custody of children after divorce, with 87,3% of cases in 2010, while shared custody represents 5.5 percent.

In addition, participation of couples without children among which are separated rose from the 30 per cent in 2000 to the 40.3 per cent in 2010.

With the number of divorces also grew from marriages. Last year there were 977.620 marriages in the country, with a growth of 4.5 percent over 2009.

The majority of the Contracting Parties was unmarried (81.7 per cent) and 18.3 percent, divorced or widowed.

Is the age range in which the women are married between the ages of 20 and 24 (29.7 per cent), followed by the 25-29 years (27.7 per cent) and the aged 15 to 19 (15.6 percent).

Between males, 31.1 per cent of those who got married last year was between 25 and 29 u000ayears.

The statistics also indicated that the percentage of violent deaths has fallen gradually since 2002, when they represented 16.3 per cent of the total number of deaths among men and 4.5 per cent among women.

Of the 1.1 million registered deaths last year in Brazil, the violent represented 14.5 per cent among men and 3.7 per cent among women.

The IBGE said that 97.8 per cent of the 2.7 million Brazilians born last year came to the world in a hospital and only one percent in house.

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