United States...................... 23,472
France............................. 6,245
Germany............................ 6,161
Russia............................. 1,789
Austria............................ 1,718
Switzerland........................ 920
Denmark............................ 635
Italy.............................. 556
Great Britain and Ireland.......... 508
Roumania........................... 541
Holland............................ 339
Belgium............................ 290
Sweden............................. 229
Australia.......................... 100
Norway............................. 68
Canada............................. 12


It will be noted that in this particular year (1885), when the United
States had 23,472 divorces, all the other countries mentioned together
had only 20,131. For 1905, twenty years later, the following statistics
are available:


United States...................... 67,976
Germany............................ 11,147
France............................. 10,860
Austria-Hungary.................... 5,785