The Vanier Institute of the Family published a study that said the actual divorce rate in Canada is around 38 percent and 44 percent in the United States, the Canwest News Service reported.
Retired York University sociology Professor Anne-Marie Ambert, who authored the report, said the 50 percent notion was accurate for the United States in the 1980s, but no longer is.
However, she acknowledged there is a greater number of people living in relationships who break up, which isn't recorded as a divorce, the report said.
"Couple dissolution in general has certainly not decreased and may actually have increased," Ambert wrote.
Citing Statistics Canada data from 2008, Canada's divorce rate fluctuates greatly by region. In Quebec, the divorce rate was 48 percent, while the lowest, 22 percent, was in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The institute's study said the average Canadian marriage that ended in divorce in 2005 lasted 14.5 years.
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