According to General Social Survey (GSS) data, divorced Canadians represented 7% of the total population aged 15 and over in 2006. In fact, divorce affects more people than what recent data leads us to believe: about 13% of Canadians aged 15 and over had experienced at least one divorce during their conjugal life, and nearly half of them had remarried.
More Statscan data (again, emphasis mine):
In 2006, more than one-half (51.5%) of the population aged 15 and over was unmarried, that is, never married, divorced, separated, or widowed, compared to 49.9% five years earlier.
If 51.5% of the population has never been married, that means 48.5% have been married. And, as is clearly stated in the first quoted paragraph, 13% have been divorced.
This means that 26.8% of all marriages end in divorce.
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