New divorces refer to the number of divorce registrations completed during a given year. On this website, the series is shown in thousands and reflects annual divorce registrations across China's provinces.

This measure is a count of registrations rather than a population-adjusted rate. It is useful for tracking the absolute volume of divorces over time and comparing how those counts differ across regions.

Looking at provincial trends helps show where divorce registrations have risen, leveled off, or declined. Read alongside the divorce-rate chart, it can also help distinguish changes in raw counts from changes driven by population size.