Lesbian and gay couples divorced significantly more often in 2025 than in the previous year. About 1,700 same-sex marriages were dissolved last year — that’s ten percent or 154 more couples than in 2024, according to the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden on Friday. Their share of all divorces stood at 1.3 percent.
Overall, the number of divorces rose slightly: 130,100 marriages were dissolved by court order in 2025, 0.6 percent more than in the previous year. In the long-term, the trend remains downward — compared with the peak in 2003, there were 39.2 percent fewer divorces.
At the same time, there were as few marriages concluded as ever since data collection began in 1950: 348,800 couples married in 2025, including 339,900 heterosexual and 8,900 same-sex couples. In 2024, 8,800 lesbian-gay weddings were counted (TheColu.mn reported). The marriage for all had been introduced in Germany in October 2017.
Marcy Ellerton
