The bar chart provide information about the percentages of divorces in Finland and Sweden between 2011 and 2015.
Overall, Sweden experienced an upward trend, while Finland showed am upward trend throughout the period. Both countries divorce rate had some fluctuations. Although Finland initially had a lower it outraced Sweden at the end of the period.
Sweden’s divorce rate was about 45% in 2011, being higher the Finland’s rate by approximately 8%. Then, it rose to almost fifty percent in 2012. However the figure showed a gradual decrease to about 47% in 2013 and continued to decline steadily to the end of the period, reaching aground 45% in 2014 and hitting a low-point of about 37% in 2015.
Percentage of divorces rate in Finland was less then 40% in 2011 and it decreased in 2012, when about one third of marriages in Finland ended with a divorce (as opposed to almost a half in Sweden). However the figure experienced a steady growth during the next two years. It rose to approximately 39% in 2013, then increased by around 3% in 2014 and remained steady for the next year, outracing the rate of Sweden.
