Riyadh - The Saudi courts have issued 3989 final divorce verdicts countrywide last November 2018.
According to the monthly report issued by the Ministry of Justice, 3246 of the divorce cases involved Saudi couples, making up 81% of the court verdicts.
The province of Riyadh topped all regions with 779 cases (24%), due to its demographic density, followed by Mecca (711 cases), the Eastern province (467).
The remaining 743 divorce verdicts involved foreign couples of Saudis married to non-Saudi husbands or wives, making up 18.6% of the overall number of divorce cases.