Mississippi Divorce Statistics

Mississippi divorce statistics in the year 2007

Cause of Divorce	Number of Divorces
	Whites	Non-Whites	Unknown	Total
Bigamy	2	3	2	7
Annulment	13	2	2	17
Penitentiary	32	23	7	62
Drunkenness	36	13	8	57
Adultery	136	68	41	245
Desertion	129	136	57	322
Cruel and inhuman treatment	216	160	82	458
Irreconcilable differences	7,796	2,556	1,533	11,885
Unknown	1	0	1	2
Miscellaneous	1	0	4	5

Number of minor children	Number of Divorces
	Whites	Non-Whites	Unknown	Total
3 or more	517	194	121	832
2	1,526	461	290	2,277
1	1,954	680	365	2,999
0	4,365	1,626	961	6,952

Note:
1) The figures for Non-Whites comprise of divorces of Mixed-Race couples
2) The above figures are close to the actual data as some counties have not reported their statistics

Other Mississippi Divorce Statistics

Year	Divorce Rate per 1,000 population
2007	4.5
2006	4.8
2005	4.4
2004	4.5
2003	4.6
2002	4.9
2001	5.0
2000	5.0
1999	5.0
1995	4.8
1990	5.5

Period	Provisional number of divorces
January to October 2006	11,911
January to October 2007	11,118
January to October 2008	11,175

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