Statistics Norway

Marriages and divorces

14 Number of children1 involved in separations. 1999-20092
  1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Children, regardless of age 19 410 20 917 21 888 21 979 21 455 21 634 20 730 19 210 18 202 18 225 18 573
Children under 18 years 13 915 15 397 16 197 16 209 15 863 15 919 15 144 13 747 13 227 13 365 13 408
1  Total of common children by separation. Until 2000, information on the number of children was collected from separation notifications from the Central Population Register. From 2001 this information was collected from separate data about parents/children relations from the Central Population Register. For the period 2001-2007 are common children who has died or emigrated before separation included.
2  Separations where the husband was resident in Norway.

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