During 2006 there was a total of 4'023 marriage separations in the Balearic Islands, the majority of which were in the form of divorces, while 390 are registered as separations' and only five cases were counted as annulments.
Throughout Spain, 126'952 people went through divorce proceedings, four times the numbetr in 2005 (32'627 people). In total, 145'919 Spanish citizens' marriages dissolved last year, 87% of which were divorces.
The large number of ruptured marriages affected those between the ages of 40 and 49, with the average age for men to suffer a separation at 43.2 years old, and 40.5 years old for women. The average length of time a couple had been married before divorce, meanwhile, was 14.7 years, compared to nine in the case of annulments and 17.8 in terms of separations.
In 51.3% of all cases of broken marriages small children were involved, almost 30% of which involved a single child. 57.2% of all separative procedures took less than six months to be completed, while 12.5% took place over the course of more than a year. 72% of all divorce proceedings were completed in under six months, while only 4.9% were stretched out over a year. The Balearics's ratio came second in the list of high divorce rate, with Catalunya third at 3.85.
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