2020,Vital statistics of Japan,, Volume 1 Divorces Table 10.4 Trends in divorces and percent distribution by legal type: Japan Note: 1) The data for “Divorce by settlement” and “Divorce by acknowledgment of claim” in 2004 are from April.    2)The figures do not correspond to those in the report before 2017 because recalculations were done due to omissions in reporting (released on March 29,2019) for 2004,2006 and 2009-2017 from prefectures. ,Total,Divorce by agreement,Divorce by mediation,Divorce by adjudication,Divorce by settlement,Divorce by acknowledgment of claim,Divorce by judgment Number, , , , , , , 1948,79032,77573,1220,92,...,...,147 1950,83689,79955,3276,25,...,...,433 1955,75267,69839,4833,27,...,...,568 1960,69410,63302,5413,43,...,...,652 1965,77195,69599,6692,41,...,...,863 1970,95937,85920,8960,64,...,...,993 1975,119135,107138,10771,54,...,...,1172 1980,141689,127379,12732,46,...,...,1532 1985,166640,151918,12928,59,...,...,1735 1990,157608,142623,13317,44,...,...,1624 1995,199016,179844,17302,66,...,...,1804 2000,264246,241703,20230,85,...,...,2228 2001,285911,261631,21957,81,...,...,2242 2002,289836,264430,22846,74,...,...,2486 2003,283854,257361,23856,61,...,...,2576 2004,270804,242680,23609,152,1341,14,3008 2005,261917,233086,22906,185,2476,19,3245 2006,257475,228802,22683,121,2805,17,3047 2007,254832,225215,23476,97,3243,15,2786 2008,251136,220487,24432,84,3486,11,2636 2009,253354,222663,24654,89,3414,22,2512 2010,251379,220167,24977,84,3648,30,2473 2011,235720,205999,23576,69,3478,24,2574 2012,235407,205075,23616,82,3831,15,2788 2013,231385,201884,23025,173,3503,17,2783 2014,222115,194169,21855,298,3303,18,2472 2015,226238,198231,21734,379,3491,18,2385 2016,216856,189005,21663,548,3458,16,2166 2017,212296,185026,20903,774,3380,9,2204 2018,208333,181998,19882,1096,3354,11,1992 2019,208496,183673,18431,1344,3025,6,2017 2020,193253,170603,16134,2229,2545,2,1740 Percentage, , , , , , , 1948,100.0,98.2,1.5,0.1,...,...,0.2 1950,100.0,95.5,3.9,   0.0,...,...,0.5 1955,100.0,92.8,6.4,   0.0,...,...,0.8 1960,100.0,91.2,7.8,0.1,...,...,0.9 1965,100.0,90.2,8.7,0.1,...,...,1.1 1970,100.0,89.6,9.3,0.1,...,...,1.0 1975,100.0,89.9,9.0,   0.0,...,...,1.0 1980,100.0,89.9,9.0,   0.0,...,...,1.1 1985,100.0,91.2,7.8,   0.0,...,...,1.0 1990,100.0,90.5,8.4,   0.0,...,...,1.0 1995,100.0,90.4,8.7,   0.0,...,...,0.9 2000,100.0,91.5,7.7,   0.0,...,...,0.8 2001,100.0,91.5,7.7,0.0,...,...,0.8 2002,100.0,91.2,7.9,0.0,...,...,0.9 2003,100.0,90.7,8.4,0.0,...,...,0.9 2004,100.0,89.6,8.7,0.1,0.5,0.0,1.1 2005,100.0,89.0,8.7,0.1,0.9,0.0,1.2 2006,100.0,88.9,8.8,0.0,1.1,0.0,1.2 2007,100.0,88.4,9.2,0.0,1.3,0.0,1.1 2008,100.0,87.8,9.7,0.0,1.4,0.0,1.0 2009,100.0,87.9,9.7,0.0,1.3,0.0,1.0 2010,100.0,87.6,9.9,0.0,1.5,0.0,1.0 2011,100.0,87.4,10.0,0.0,1.5,0.0,1.1 2012,100.0,87.1,10.0,0.0,1.6,0.0,1.2 2013,100.0,87.3,10.0,0.1,1.5,0.0,1.2 2014,100.0,87.4,9.8,0.1,1.5,0.0,1.1 2015,100.0,87.6,9.6,0.2,1.5,0.0,1.1 2016,100.0,87.2,10.0,0.3,1.6,0.0,1.0 2017,100.0,87.2,9.8,0.4,1.6,0.0,1.0 2018,100.0,87.4,9.5,0.5,1.6,0.0,1.0 2019,100.0,88.1,8.8,0.6,1.5,0.0,1.0 2020,100.0,88.3,8.3,1.2,1.3,0.0,0.9