The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said divorce cases increased from 155,621 cases in 2012 to 163,593 cases in 2013, an increase of 4.7 percent, while marriages declined from 922,425 cases in 2012 to 909,350 cases in 2013, a decline of 1.4 percent.
It also said that marriages of males in the age group of 25 to less than 30 years old were 44 percent in 2013 and among the age group of 65 years and above were 0.8 percent.
Marriages of females in the age group of 20 to less than 25 years old were 41 percent and among the age group of 65 years and above were 0.8 percent.
Divorces of males in the age group of 30 to less than 35 years old were 20.1 percent and among the age group of 18 years to less than 20 years were 0.4 percent.
Divorces of females in the age group of 25 to less than 30 years old were 23.1 percent and among the age group of 65 years and above were 0.6 percent.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
