The leaders in the number of divorces were Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan

The most divorces in 2022 in the Russian Federation were recorded in Ingushetia: 2,542 per thousand married people. Rosstat reported this. In second place is Chechnya. There, 2,069 divorces were identified per thousand marriages. The third was Dagestan with an indicator of 1967. The top 5 also included Karachay-Cherkessia (1520) and North Ossetia-Alania (1390).

The fewest divorces in 2022 were identified in St. Petersburg - 462, Moscow - 468, Chukotka - 511 and Tatarstan - 522.

According to experts, many residents in the North Caucasus began to get fictitious divorces in order for single women to receive need-based benefits.