Divorce decreases due to fewer marriages… Impact of court adjournment due to Corona
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| [The Herald DB] |
[헤럴드경제=배문숙 기자] Divorce increased whenever there was an economic crisis such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) foreign exchange crisis, the credit card crisis, and the global financial crisis, but it is believed to have decreased last year when the Corona 19 crisis hit.
Unlike other economic crises, the reason the number of divorces did not increase last year in the Corona 19 crisis is the decrease in the number of marriages and the adjournment of the court due to social distance.
According to the number of divorces by year among the population trends of Statistics Korea on the 13th, the number of divorces tended to increase compared to the previous year during the economic crisis.
Demographic Trends Since 1981, when divorce statistics were calculated, the year in which the number of divorces increased the most compared to the previous year was 1998, when the IMF crisis was affected. The number of divorces from 91,160 in 1997 to 11,6294 in 1998, an increase of 27.6%. The number of divorces per year, which was below 100,000 cases, jumped to 100,000 cases since 1998.
In 2003, when there was a card turmoil, the number of divorces was 16,617, the highest since statistics. The increase rate was also high at 15.0% compared to the previous year (14,910 cases). The increase in the number of divorces between 1998 and 2003 was 1.0% in 1999, 1.7% in 2000, 12.7% in 2001, and 7.7% in 2002. In 2003, the increase rate of divorces was the highest since 1998.
The number of divorces decreased for five consecutive years from 2004 to 2008 to 12,3999 in 2009, which was the aftermath of the global financial crisis, up 6.4% from the previous year (11,6535). After that, until 2019, the number of divorces declined or increased from the previous year, but the increase did not exceed 3%.
However, it is analyzed that the number of divorces decreased compared to the previous year, unlike the past crisis, last year, when the economy was hit as much as the IMF crisis and the global financial crisis by the Corona 19 crisis. The number of divorces from January to November last year was 9,7331, down 4.2% from 10,1662 in the same period in 2019.
The annual number of divorces in 2019 is 11,831. Although the figures for December 2020 have not yet been released, considering that the number of divorces per month from January to November was 7,000 to 9000, it is very likely that the number of divorces will be less than in 2019.