CBS StatLine - Marriages and partnership registrations; key figures

Marriages and partnership registrations; key figures

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Changed on August 13 2012. Frequency: yearly.

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Subjects				Periods	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Marriages	Total marriages			number	88 074	82 091	85 808	80 427	73 441	72 263	72 369	72 485	75 438	73 477	75 399	71 572
	Marriages, relative			per 1,000 inhabitants	5.5	5.1	5.3	5.0	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.6	4.4	4.5	4.3
	Between man and woman			number	88 074	79 677	83 970	78 928	72 231	71 113	71 157	71 114	74 030	72 119	74 045	70 217
	Between men					1 339	935	735	579	570	579	663	656	573	660	601
	Between women					1 075	903	764	631	580	633	708	752	785	694	754
Marrying persons	By sex and marital status	Men	Total men		84 573	78 728	82 005	77 091	69 525	69 493	70 335	70 782	73 801	71 516	72 946	69 238
			Never married		66 957	62 469	64 867	60 766	54 684	54 555	54 998	55 521	58 075	56 429	55 434	52 556
			Partnership		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	955	1 071
			Widowed		1 811	1 714	1 766	1 629	1 602	1 670	1 739	1 706	1 693	1 659	1 639	1 614
			Divorced		15 805	14 545	15 372	14 696	13 239	13 268	13 598	13 555	14 033	13 428	14 918	13 997
		Women	Total women		82 773	76 280	79 845	75 221	68 780	68 200	68 731	69 572	72 564	70 298	70 544	67 610
			Never married		66 769	61 408	64 293	60 244	54 915	54 347	54 612	55 311	57 838	56 276	54 967	52 468
			Partnership		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	933	1 084
			Widowed		1 441	1 352	1 432	1 320	1 396	1 372	1 404	1 445	1 467	1 371	1 254	1 289
			Divorced		14 563	13 520	14 120	13 657	12 469	12 481	12 715	12 816	13 259	12 651	13 390	12 769
	By sex and marital status, relative	Men	Total men	o/oo	29.5	26.9	27.6	25.6	22.8	22.4	22.4	22.2	22.8	21.7	21.5	20.0
			Never married		28.8	26.4	27.0	24.9	22.2	21.8	21.7	21.6	22.2	21.3	20.7	19.4
			Partnership		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	17.7	17.5
			Widowed		11.1	10.4	10.7	9.7	9.5	9.8	10.2	9.9	9.7	9.4	9.2	8.9
			Divorced		41.7	37.1	38.2	35.9	31.8	31.3	31.4	30.8	31.3	28.5	30.3	27.9
		Women	Total women		26.6	24.1	24.9	23.1	20.9	20.4	20.3	20.2	20.8	19.9	19.4	18.3
			Never married		35.2	31.8	32.6	30.1	26.9	26.1	25.8	25.7	26.3	25.3	24.4	22.9
			Partnership		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	17.3	17.7
			Widowed		2.0	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.0	1.8	1.9
			Divorced		29.4	26.5	26.8	25.4	22.7	22.2	22.2	21.9	22.2	20.3	20.7	19.3
Average age at marriage	Men	Total men		year	34.1	34.6	34.7	35.0	35.4	35.8	36.1	36.3	36.4	36.5	36.6	36.9
		Never married			31.0	31.6	31.6	31.8	32.2	32.4	32.6	32.8	32.9	33.0	32.8	33.0
		Partnership			.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	37.8	37.3
		Widowed			58.2	58.2	58.0	58.4	58.8	59.1	60.6	59.9	60.4	61.1	61.0	61.2
		Divorced			44.5	44.9	45.1	45.5	46.0	46.8	47.1	47.7	47.9	48.4	47.9	48.6
	Women	Total women			31.1	31.5	31.6	31.9	32.3	32.7	33.0	33.2	33.4	33.4	33.4	33.8
		Never married			28.5	28.9	29.0	29.2	29.5	29.7	29.9	30.0	30.2	30.3	30.1	30.4
		Partnership			.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	34.2	34.4
		Widowed			53.0	54.0	53.5	53.6	54.6	55.5	55.4	56.0	56.1	57.0	56.9	57.3
		Divorced			41.0	41.4	41.4	41.9	42.4	43.1	43.8	44.2	44.6	44.9	44.8	45.3
Average number of marriages per person	Men	Total marriages		number	0.72	0.68	0.71	0.68	0.62	0.63	0.65	0.66	0.69	0.67	0.69	0.65
		One marriage			0.55	0.52	0.55	0.53	0.48	0.49	0.51	0.52	0.55	0.53	0.52	0.50
		Two or more marriages			0.17	0.15	0.16	0.15	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.15	0.14	0.16	0.15
	Women	Total marriages			0.74	0.69	0.73	0.69	0.64	0.64	0.65	0.66	0.69	0.67	0.67	0.64
		One marriage			0.60	0.56	0.59	0.56	0.52	0.52	0.53	0.54	0.56	0.55	0.53	0.51
		Two or more marriages			0.14	0.13	0.14	0.13	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.12	0.14	0.14
Partnership registrations	Total partnership registrations	Total partnership registrations			2 922	3 377	8 321	10 119	11 156	11 307	10 801	10 550	10 842	9 497	9 571	9 945
		Partnership registrations, relative		per 1,000 inhabitants	0.18	0.21	0.52	0.62	0.69	0.69	0.66	0.64	0.66	0.57	0.58	0.60
		Between man and woman		number	1 322	2 847	7 774	9 577	10 573	10 699	10 182	9 945	10 231	9 002	9 084	9 464
		Between men			815	285	269	262	261	279	295	269	298	221	234	235
		Between women			785	245	278	280	322	329	324	336	313	274	253	246
	New partnerships	Total new partnership registrations			.	2 188	3 532	4 790	5 640	6 262	6 848	7 330	7 972	8 921	9 571	9 945
		Between man and woman			.	1 670	3 044	4 305	5 148	5 744	6 315	6 804	7 450	8 434	9 084	9 464
		Between men			.	280	250	235	220	234	257	240	259	217	234	235
		Between women			.	238	238	250	272	284	276	286	263	270	253	246
	Marriage changed into a partnership	Total marriages changed into a partne...			.	1 189	4 789	5 329	5 516	5 045	3 953	3 220	2 870	576
		Between man and woman			.	1 177	4 730	5 272	5 425	4 955	3 867	3 141	2 781	568
		Between men			.	5	19	27	41	45	38	29	39	4
		Between women			.	7	40	30	50	45	48	50	50	4
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