KUWAIT CITY, Dec 1: According to official data, there has been an increase in the number of divorce cases registered in Kuwait since the beginning of this year. The marriage index for the same period recorded a decline of 3,226 cases compared to the corresponding period in 2021, reports Al-Rai daily. Numerically, the official data states that there were 636 divorce cases registered in Kuwait in the last 11 months, with Kuwaitis accounting for 399 cases and non-Kuwaitis 237 divorce cases since the beginning of the year.

Informed sources did not clarify the real reasons behind this number of divorce cases recorded since the beginning of the year, but they indicated that, according to the preliminary data that appeared from the divorcees when registering a request for divorce, it seemed that there was more than one reason such as disagreements, incompatibilities, and others related to with social matters. There were also reasons for some cases that did not rise to the degree of separation of the two life partners, and it was possible to bypass them.