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| Marriages and divorces |
| Annual average | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1971-1975 | 1976-1980 | 1981-1985 | 1986-1990 | 1991-1995 | 1996-2000 | 2001-2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children, regardless of age | 7 224 | 9 822 | 11 850 | 13 823 | 16 659 | 15 426 | 17 551 | 16 885 | 17 389 | 17 569 | 17 916 | 17 994 | 16 845 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children under 18 years 3 | 5 318 | 7 527 | 8 621 | 9 161 | 10 702 | 9 867 | 11 617 | 11 135 | 11 506 | 11 601 | 11 895 | 11 949 | 11 021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Total of common children alive in marriages dissolved by divorce. Until 2000, information on the number of children was collected from divorce notifications from the Central Population Register. From 2001 this information was collected from separate data about parents/children relations from the Central Population Register. |
| 2 | For the period 1971-1985 the number of children involved refers to divorces where at least one of the spouses was resident in Norway. From 1986 the figure for involved children refers to divorces where the husband/father was a resident of Norway at the time of divorce. |
| 3 | Before 1979: Children under 16 years of age. |