Data presented here is by 'legal marital status' where persons living in common law. Divorced includes persons who have obtained a legal divorce and have not remarried. Those who live with a common-law partner are included in this category.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2000 to 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
In 2022, there were about 2.78 million people who had obtained a legal divorce and not remarried in Canada. This figure has been steadily increasing since 2000, when there were about 1.88 million divorcees in Canada.
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