Egypt saw about 200,000 divorce cases during 2015, which marks a 10.8 per cent increase in divorces from the previous year, the official statistics agency revealed on Monday.
The total number of divorces in 2015 reached 199,867 in comparison to 180,244 in 2014, the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) said in its annual report on marriages and divorces.
The majority of divorces granted by court rulings are through Khula', estimated at 67.6% of the total for 2015, while the lowest was due to the imprisonment of the husband, which constituted 0.08% of the cases.
Egyptian women were granted the right to initiate a no-fault divorce,Khula', in 2000, where they are allowed to obtain a divorce in the court without the husband's consent, provided they relinquish any claim to their dowry or alimony.
The national divorce rate slightly increased to 1.7 per cent with 969,399 documented in 2015 in comparison to 953,137 in 2014.
