Statistics on marriage and divorce in Switzerland over time

IVIS project by Tiziano Schacht and Manuel Wüst



How is society evolving in marriage and divorce? Discover some interesting facts about this development
according to the data from the government of Switzerland.
What changes do you predict already?

Demografic Overview

Let's have a look over some demografic data about habitants of Switzerland. Therefore, we would like to point out some interesting relations. In 2018, there were approximately 2.45 marriages per divorce. At that time, there were 70'285 more men than women in Switzerland, even though the life expectancy of a man is only 81.7 years, which is 3.7 years shorter than that of a woman. Out of the 3.7 million households, around 2.4 million consist of more than one person.

Used Information

What is your year of birth?

Are you married?

When did you get married (first time)?

I'm done!

Development of first time marriage

Lets see how you compare to the average swiss people based on your first time marriage. The dashed line indicates your data input.
Take a look how men and women differentiate in their first time marriage over time.

Divorces over time

This chart indicates the amount of divorces registered in Switzerland. The lines are grouped by centuries based on the median. If you are married, you can see a specific line with the divorces over time going forward from your marriage year.

Significant Milestones

Different adjustments in the law have an impact on the development of the society. Some important milestones that probably had an impact on marriages on divorces can be explored in this diagram.

Conclusion

These visualizations show that people continuously married later over time. It looks like this trend will continue in the future. Divorces have proportionally grown compared to the marriages over the past few years. Reasons in rising divorces are diverse and it is hard to draw a conclusion that this gap will continue to shrink. However, it is important to notice that divorces should be seen as a time postponed effect and this number might go down since there were less marriages in the past few years.

We hope you could learn something from these visualizations and you could draw your own conclusions from them.

Data sources:
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/erhebungen/efg.assetdetail.10467788.html
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung.assetdetail.10827606.html
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/heiraten-eingetragene-partnerschaften-scheidungen/scheidungshaeufigkeit.assetdetail.13187653.html
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/heiraten-eingetragene-partnerschaften-scheidungen/heiratshaeufigkeit.assetdetail.14387148.html
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/kataloge-datenbanken/tabellen.assetdetail.13187597.html
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/stand-entwicklung.assetdetail.13707405.html