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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | 15 years ago, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martina Vic Magnussen was killed in an apartment near Mephe. |
0:07.2 | 23-year-old Martina Vic Magnussen was found partially buried in the basement. |
0:12.2 | Before being questioned, the only suspect in the case had fled the UK to Yemen. |
0:17.1 | I made a promise to Martina's family to find out what happened. Murder in Mephe, |
0:22.4 | part of the documentary, find it wherever you get your BBC podcast. |
0:27.3 | Thank you for downloading the more or less podcast. |
0:30.6 | We're your weekly guides of the numbers in the news and in life, I'm Ben Carter. |
0:44.0 | This week we're talking about divorce and how we can measure it. |
0:48.4 | India 1%, Vietnam 7%, Tajikistan 10%, Iran. |
0:55.0 | This is a recent tweet that went viral, which claims to outline divorce rates around the world. |
1:00.6 | Luxembourg 79%, Spain 85%, Portugal 94%. |
1:10.9 | The tweet on the world of statistics account |
1:14.0 | ranked 33 countries and their supposed divorce rates from lowest to highest. |
1:19.6 | The lowest rate was for India, with a divorce rate of just 1%. |
1:24.0 | While Portugal ranked the highest, with a whopping 94%. |
1:28.9 | The tweet has had a huge 35 million views and thousands of comments, |
1:33.8 | but there's no source attached to these extraordinary numbers, |
1:37.5 | and the account hasn't responded to our requests for more information. |
1:41.6 | So we've taken it upon ourselves to investigate. |
1:45.3 | First of all, I think we should be clear what we are measuring. |
1:49.4 | When you hear a divorce rate of 50%, you probably think that means half of marriage is end and divorce. |
1:56.0 | But to get that kind of figure, you need to follow a marriage until it ends with either the death of one of the partners, or in divorce. |
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