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In Ukraine, number of marriages increased and divorces decreased sharply in 2025

27 January , 2026  

In Ukraine, 165,590 marriages were registered in 2025, which is 10.2% or 15,380 more than in 2024, according to a report on state registration of civil status acts by the Ministry of Justice.

According to the report, the number of registered divorces fell by 23.4%, or 8,010, to 26,280, including those by court decision, which fell by 27.9% to 950.

In 2024, the situation was reversed: the number of marriages decreased by 19.3%, while the number of divorces increased by 42.2%.

According to the Ministry of Justice, in the second half of 2025, compared to the first half, the number of registered marriages increased by 41.4% to 96,990, while the number of registered divorces increased by 7.1% to 13,590.

While the average number of marriages per divorce in Ukraine last year was 6.3, the highest rate was in Kyiv (10), Lviv and Zakarpattia (8.7 and 8.6), and Rivne (8.3). The lowest ratio was in Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, where it ranged from 4.3 to 4.8 times.

According to the Ministry of Justice, in the pre-war year of 2021, 214,01 marriages and 29,59 thousand divorces were registered in Ukraine, while in the year the war began, the number of marriages increased to 222,89 thousand, and the number of divorces decreased to 17,89 thousand.

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