Egypt .. a divorce case every two minutes and a quarter of a million a year
The head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt, Major General Khairat Barakat, confirmed, in a telephone interview with the Egyptian journalist Ahmed Moussa, on the program “My Responsibility” on “Echo of the Country” channel, that the agency issues a bulletin on marriage and divorce, explaining that the most important indicators of divorce and marriage in 2020 reveal that The number of marriage contracts during 2020 amounted to 876 thousand contracts, then 880 thousand during 2021. As for divorce data in 2020, it came to about 222 thousand cases, and then increased by 13% to reach 245 thousand cases during 2021, adding, according to 2020 data, a divorce occurs every two minutes. , about 25 cases per hour, and more than 18,000 cases per month.
Dr. Randa Fares, director of the affectionate project to preserve the Egyptian family and reduce divorce rates in the Egyptian society, affiliated with the Ministry of Social Solidarity, commented on the occurrence of a divorce every two minutes in Egypt, according to data for the year 2020 of the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics.
The director of the Mawadda project to preserve the Egyptian family in the Ministry of Solidarity told "Cairo 24" that the Mawaddah project relies in its work methodology on indicators issued by the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics, which showed that 12% of divorce cases that occurred in 2020 occurred during the first year. From marriage, and because of this phenomenon of early divorce, we are working as a project on the category of young people who are about to get married, adding: Because of the phenomenon of early divorce, we worked as a project to support young people who are about to get married, to understand the concept of realistic marriage and psychological readiness for the decision. We provide the skills and knowledge necessary to build a family with a life partner. And understanding the needs of each party.
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