Do changes in divorce legislation have an impact on divorce rates? The case of unilateral divorce in Mexico

Aguirre, Edith

doi:10.1186/s40503-019-0071-7

Latin American Economic Review

Table 5 Divorce rates by state—total number of divorces per 1000 people

From: Do changes in divorce legislation have an impact on divorce rates? The case of unilateral divorce in Mexico

State	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Aguascalientes^a	1.11	1.06	0.95	1.12	1.1	1.19	0.98	1.14	1.21	1.06	1.34
Baja California	1.54	1.44	1.06	1.07	0.99	0.96	1.03	0.98	0.99	0.88	1.04
Baja California Sur	1.04	0.97	1.03	1.23	1.09	0.86	1.05	1.06	1.15	0.98	0.96
Campeche	0.98	1.05	0.97	1.03	1.07	1.11	1.16	1.31	1.35	1.51	1.33
Chihuahua	1.52	1.22	1.37	1.39	1.37	1.46	1.59	1.72	1.7	1.6	1.9
Chiapas	0.29	0.31	0.32	0.34	0.33	0.35	0.37	0.42	0.41	0.44	0.48
Coahuila^a	0.97	1.13	1.18	1.23	1.3	1.17	1.2	1.28	1.9	2.44	2.08
Colima	1.13	1.22	1.36	1.36	1.45	1.39	1.29	0.95	1.06	1.25	1.21
Mexico City^a	0.79	0.77	0.78	0.86	1.05	1.24	1.28	1.25	1.24	1.15	1.38
Durango	0.73	0.85	0.88	0.8	0.81	0.82	0.85	0.94	0.91	1.0	1.09
Guerrero^a	0.37	0.35	0.41	0.35	0.35	0.39	0.38	0.48	0.66	0.61	0.56
Guanajuato	0.63	0.67	0.73	0.79	0.8	0.8	0.84	0.84	1.01	1.08	1.27
Hidalgo^a	0.28	0.3	0.32	0.35	0.49	0.48	0.51	0.69	0.8	0.89	0.89
Jalisco	0.47	0.53	0.6	0.61	0.57	0.58	0.58	0.56	0.54	0.55	0.53
Mexico^a	0.52	0.53	0.53	0.53	0.53	0.53	0.56	0.8	1.11	1.13	1.18
Michoacan^a	0.62	0.66	0.65	0.64	0.65	0.65	0.75	0.8	0.79	0.77	0.88
Morelos	0.5	0.43	0.45	0.57	0.6	0.67	0.72	0.75	0.71	0.71	0.8
Nayarit^a	0.9	1.03	1.06	0.85	0.81	0.81	0.83	0.93	0.93	0.85	0.9
Nuevo Leon	0.99	1.04	1.34	1.52	1.58	1.42	1.45	1.54	1.33	1.58	1.74
Oaxaca	0.13	0.12	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.15	0.2	0.26	0.25	0.29
Puebla	0.34	0.35	0.38	0.38	0.38	0.4	0.41	0.48	0.51	0.52	0.47
Queretaro	0.67	0.78	0.79	0.83	0.73	0.81	0.85	0.84	1.08	1.13	1.32
Quintana Roo^a	0.86	1.0	1.17	1.33	1.36	1.15	1.19	0.7	0.69	0.95	1.14
Sinaloa^a	1.0	1.02	1.13	1.17	1.07	1.14	1.23	1.29	1.41	1.88	1.93
San Luis Potosi	0.42	0.48	0.53	0.52	0.57	0.58	0.65	0.66	0.65	0.58	0.61
Sonora	0.96	1.0	1.07	1.12	1.06	1.05	1.02	1.07	1.13	1.15	1.13
Tabasco	0.61	0.69	0.63	0.77	0.83	0.7	0.74	0.78	0.66	0.72	0.71
Tamaulipas^a	0.58	0.62	0.68	0.67	0.6	0.57	0.62	0.69	0.58	0.57	0.95
Tlaxcala	0.12	0.16	0.22	0.29	0.25	0.26	0.33	0.37	0.39	0.44	0.43
Veracruz	0.45	0.46	0.49	0.54	0.53	0.52	0.57	0.58	0.61	0.53	0.55
Yucatán^a	1.23	1.08	1.14	1.21	1.16	1.03	1.22	1.21	0.93	0.85	1.26
Zacatecas	0.75	0.82	0.86	0.84	0.94	0.95	0.97	1.17	1.18	1.19	1.19

Source: Author’s calculations using National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) information
Italicized cells indicate the year when the state adopted unilateral divorce
^aStates with unilateral divorce legislation. In 2016, Baja California Sur, Colima, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Puebla and Tlaxcala, also modified their legislation toward no-fault divorce, but 2016 divorce data are not yet available

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