In depth document including graphs, trends in marriage, census statistics, marriage and cohabitation, reasons for changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation statistics, Morgan (2003), chosen families, same sex relationships and more
The number of people choosing to
get married is declining.
44% of people 26+ living in
England and Wales are married.
The average age a female is
married is 29/30.
Trends in marriage:
- There were 219,850 marriages in total in England and Wales in 2019, a
decrease of 6.4% from 2018.
- In 2019, there were 213,122 marriages between opposite-sex couples, a
decrease of 6.5% from 2018 and 6,728 marriages between same-sex couples,
a decrease of 2.8% from 2018
- There were 179,905 marriages (81.8%) registered as civil ceremonies in
2019 and less than one in five (18.2%) were religious ceremonies.
- Over the last two decades, there has been a 60.4% decrease in opposite-sex
religious ceremonies.
Census 2021:
• First time same sex marriage was recorded
• 21.7 million people married or in a civil partnership (44% of population 16+)
• 99.4% of marriages were opposite sex
• Civil partnerships – 67,000 same sex, 35,000 opposite sex
• Increase in % of people never married or in a civil partnership from 34.6% to
37.9%
• Increase in divorced people from 9% to 9.1%
• Widowers declined to 6.1%, separated 2.2% of the population
Marriage and Cohabitation
Nearly 9 out of 10 opposite-sex couples (88%) cohabited before getting married in
2017. This proportion has steadily increased over the last 20 years from 69% in
1997 to 81% in 2007 and is in line with the increasing level of cohabitation seen
more generally
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