The Office of National Statistics has released its figures for divorce data in 2012, and advises us that the number of divorces in England and Wales increased by 0.5% to 118,140 compared with 117,558 in 2011.
Of those 118,140 divorcing couples the “fact” proven in the petition was as follows:
| Year of divorce | Party to whom granted | Fact proven | ||||||
| Total | Adultery | Behaviour | Desertion | Separation (2 years and consent) | Separation (5 years) | Others | ||
| 2012 | Husband | 41,542 | 5,675 | 15,210 | 334 | 13,237 | 7,047 | 39 |
| Wife | 76,400 | 10,320 | 41,248 | 385 | 16,973 | 7,231 | 243 | |
I attach the figures for marriage and divorce rates between 1932 and 2012:
| Number of marriages and divorces, 1932–2012 | |||
| England and Wales | |||
| Year | Divorces | Marriages | |
| 1932 | 3,894 | 307,184 | |
| 1933 | 4,042 | 318,191 | |
| 1934 | 4,287 | 342,307 | |
| 1935 | 4,069 | 349,536 | |
| 1936 | 5,146 | 354,644 | |
| 1937 | 4,886 | 359,160 | |
| 1938 | 6,250 | 361,768 | |
| 1939 | 8,254 | 439,694 | |
| 1940 | 7,755 | 470,549 | |
| 1941 | 6,368 | 388,921 | |
| 1942 | 7,618 | 369,744 | |
| 1943 | 10,012 | 296,432 | |
| 1944 | 12,312 | 302,714 | |
| 1945 | 15,634 | 397,626 | |
| 1946 | 29,829 | 385,606 | |
| 1947 | 60,254 | 401,210 | |
| 1948 | 43,698 | 396,891 | |
| 1949 | 34,856 | 375,041 | |
| 1950 | 30,870 | 358,490 | |
| 1951 | 28,767 | 360,624 | |
| 1952 | 33,922 | 349,308 | |
| 1953 | 30,326 | 344,998 | |
| 1954 | 28,027 | 341,731 | |
| 1955 | 26,816 | 357,918 | |
| 1956 | 26,265 | 352,944 | |
| 1957 | 23,785 | 346,903 | |
| 1958 | 22,654 | 339,913 | |
| 1959 | 24,286 | 340,126 | |
| 1960 | 23,868 | 343,614 | |
| 1961 | 25,394 | 346,678 | |
| 1962 | 28,935 | 347,732 | |
| 1963 | 32,052 | 351,329 | |
| 1964 | 34,868 | 359,307 | |
| 1965 | 37,785 | 371,127 | |
| 1966 | 39,067 | 384,497 | |
| 1967 | 43,093 | 386,052 | |
| 1968 | 45,794 | 407,822 | |
| 1969 | 51,310 | 396,746 | |
| 1970 | 58,239 | 415,487 | |
| 1971 | 74,437 | 404,737 | |
| 1972 | 119,025 | 426,241 | |
| 1973 | 106,003 | 400,435 | |
| 1974 | 113,500 | 384,389 | |
| 1975 | 120,522 | 380,620 | |
| 1976 | 126,694 | 358,567 | |
| 1977 | 129,053 | 356,954 | |
| 1978 | 143,667 | 368,258 | |
| 1979 | 138,706 | 368,853 | |
| 1980 | 148,301 | 370,022 | |
| 1981 | 145,713 | 351,973 | |
| 1982 | 146,698 | 342,166 | |
| 1983 | 147,479 | 344,334 | |
| 1984 | 144,501 | 349,186 | |
| 1985 | 160,300 | 346,389 | |
| 1986 | 153,903 | 347,924 | |
| 1987 | 151,007 | 351,761 | |
| 1988 | 152,633 | 348,492 | |
| 1989 | 150,872 | 346,697 | |
| 1990 | 153,386 | 331,150 | |
| 1991 | 158,745 | 306,756 | |
| 1992 | 160,385 | 311,564 | |
| 1993 | 165,018 | 299,197 | |
| 1994 | 158,175 | 291,069 | |
| 1995 | 155,499 | 283,012 | |
| 1996 | 157,107 | 278,975 | |
| 1997 | 146,689 | 272,536 | |
| 1998 | 145,214 | 267,303 | |
| 1999 | 144,556 | 263,515 | |
| 2000 | 141,135 | 267,961 | |
| 2001 | 143,818 | 249,227 | |
| 2002 | 147,735 | 255,596 | |
| 2003 | 153,065 | 270,109 | |
| 2004 | 152,923 | 273,069 | |
| 2005 | 141,322 | 247,805 | |
| 2006 | 132,140 | 239,454 | |
| 2007 | 128,131 | 235,367 | |
| 2008 | 121,708 | 235,794 | |
| 2009 | 113,949 | 232,443 | |
| 2010 | 119,589 | 243,808 | |
| 2011 | 117,558 | 247,890P | |
| 2012 | 118,140 | .. | |
