1074 divorce cases, 18.4% of them among citizens

3198 Marriage contracted in Dubai within 9 months

Data by the Dubai Statistics Center showed that the number of marriage contracts registered in Dubai, from the beginning of the year until the end of last September, reached 3,198.

According to the data issued by the Dubai courts, the number of marriage contracts for an Emirati husband and wife reached 853 contracts (26.7% of the total contracts). As for the total marriage contracts for an Emirati husband married to a non-Emirati, (including cases of Emirati women married to a non-Emirati), it reached 522 contracts, representing 16.3% .

Regarding marriage contracts (non-Emirati and non-Emirati), it amounted to 1823 contracts, which constituted about 57% of the total registered contracts.

According to the data, 1074 divorces were recorded during the beginning of this year until the end of last September, and the number of divorce cases among citizens reached 198 cases, representing 18.4% of the total.

The number of divorce cases for a citizen married to a non-citizen (including Emirati women married to a non-Emirati), 158 divorces, representing 14.7% of the total, while non-citizen divorce cases reached 718, or 66.9%.

The Population Hour Index, on the Dubai Statistics Center website, showed that the emirate’s population reached three million and 394 thousand people at the end of the first half of this year, compared to three million and 272 thousand people in the same period last year, an increase of 122 thousand people, and an increase 3.73%.

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