Statistics Norway

14 Number of children1 involved in separations. 1999-20062
  1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Children, regardless of age 19 410 20 917 321 888 21 979 21 455 321 634 20 730 319 210
Children under 18 years 13 915 15 397 16 197 16 209 15 863 15 919 15 144 313 747
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  Separations where the husband was resident in Norway.
3  Corrected 14.11.2007.

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