Divorce Rates down nearly 30% from 1993 high

According to official Office for National Statistics (ONS) stats published on the Guardian website, divorce rates today are nearly 30% lower than they were at their all time high in 1993:

In 1993 165,018 divorces occurred, whereas by 2012 that was down 28% to 118,140.

The graph above would tend to show that, once the rise of divorces during the 50s and 60s due to the reduced social stigma of separation had abated, divorces have been on a long term downward trend since the early 1990s.