Rhode Island Divorce Statistics

Year	Divorce Rate per 1,000 population
2007	2.8
2006	3.0
2005	2.9
2004	3.0
2003	3.1
2002	3.2
2001	3.1
2000	2.9
1999	2.7
1995	3.6
1990	3.7

Rhode Island Divorce Statistics of the 1970s

Year	Divorce Rate per 1,000 population	Number of Divorces (dissolutions + annulments)	Median duration of marriage
1975	2.9	2,658	7.8
1974	2.7	2,522	8.0
1973	2.5	2,423	8.4

Number of divorces (dissolutions + annulments) in the year 1975 as per the number of children under 18 years of age who have been affected by the divorce decree.

Number of children reported	Number of divorces
None	910
1	651
2	559
3	263
4	130
5 or more	79
Not stated	66

Rhode Island Divorce Statistics of the 1990s and 2000s

Period	Provisional number of divorces
January to August 2002	2,237
January to August 2003	2,290
January to August 2004	2,188
January to October 2006	2,701
January to October 2007	2,580
January to October 2008	2,445

Year	Divorce Rate per 1,000 population
1990	3.7
1995	3.7
1998	3.7

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