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Year	Rate of divorce
1940	3.02
1941	2.68
1942	2.67
1943	3.03
1944	4.44
1945	4.64
1946	5.52
1947	5.35
1948	4.58
1949	4.58
1950	3.87
1951	3.7
1952	3.8
1953	3.4
1954	3.3
1955	3.1
1956	3
1957	2.9
1958	3.5
1959	3.2
1960	3.2
1961	3.2
1962	3.3
1963	3.5
1964	3.4
1965	3.2
1966	3.5
1967	3.5
1968	3.6
1969	4.9
1970	5.0
1971	5.1
1972	5.3
1973	5.4
1974	6.6
1975	6.9
1976	7.4
1977	7.4
1978	8.0
1979	8.5
1980	9.0
1981	11.9
1982	17.1
1983	13.3
1984	12.5
1985	11.7
1986	11.9
1987	11.8
1988	11.8
1989	11.7
1990	12.3
1991	12.0
1992	11.9
1993	11.9
1994	11.9
1995	12.3
1996	12.7
1997	12.3
1998	12.6
1999	12.5
2000	12.2
2001	12.1
2002	12.7
2003	12.8
2004	12.8
2005	11.9
2006	11.9
2007	11.3
2008	11.3
2009	10.1
2010	10.1
2011	9.7
2012	9.9
2013	9.3
2014	9.1
2015	9.3
2016	8.7
2017	8.4


Sources: Statistics New Zealand; Roderick Phillips, Divorce in New Zealand: a social history. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 60


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