Marriages and partnership registrations; key figures
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This table includes data on contracted marriages and registered partnerships among the Dutch population.
The following information is available:
- Marriages by sex of the partners.
- Marrying persons by sex and marital status before marriage.
- Average age at marriage by sex and marital status.
- Average number of contracted marriages by sex.
- Partnership registrations by sex of the partners.
Data available from: 1950
Status of the figures:
All figures in this publication are final data.
Changes per 13 July 2023:
Final figures of 2022 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
Figures of 2023 will be added in the 2nd quarter of 2024.
Description topics
- Marriages
- Contracted marriages
Break in the series for marriages and marrying individuals
Due to improvements in the production process there has been a slight increase in the marriage figures from 2010 onwards. As of 2010 the marriages abroad are observed better. The slight increase of the share of migration marriages in 2010, which mainly takes place among Moroccans, is entirely explained by the improved method.
Excluding registered partnership
From October 1994: the figures refer to married couples of which at least one partner is recorded in the municipal registers, irrespective of the country where the marriage was performed.
Until October 1994: the figures refer to all marriages contracted in the Netherlands, irrespective of registration of the person(s) in the municipal registers.- Total marriages
- Marriages, relative
- Marriages per thousand of the average population.
Average population:
Half of the population at the start of a given period plus half of the population at the end of that period.
Population:
The total number of people residing in The Netherlands.
In the population statistics compiled by Statistics Netherlands the inhabitants are the people registered in the population register of a Dutch municipality.
- Between man and woman
- Between men
- Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.
- Between women
- Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.
- Average number of marriages per person
- Break in the series for marriages and marrying individuals
Due to improvements in the production process there has been a slight increase in the marriage figures from 2010 onwards. As of 2010 the marriages abroad are observed better. The slight increase of the share of migration marriages in 2010, which mainly takes place among Moroccans, is entirely explained by the improved method.
Average number of marriages per person
The arithmetic mean of the number of marriages (excluding partnerships) a person will enter into during his / her life, if the age-specific marriage rate observed in that year were to apply for the rest of the person's life.
Including persons in same-sex marriages.
Age specific marriage rates:
Marrying males / females in a given age group and period, related to the average number of men / women in that age group during that period.- Men
- Total marriages
- Two or more marriages
- Women
- Total marriages
- Two or more marriages
- Partnership registrations
- A marriage-like relationship recorded at the registry office. Partnership registration is open to same-sex and different-sex couples. Registered partnership was introduced in the Netherlands on 1 January 1998.
The figures refer to registered partnerships of which at least one partner is recorded in the municipal registers of a Dutch municipality.- Marriage changed into a partnership
- From 1 April 2001 til 1 March 2009, a marriage could be changed into a partnership registration.
- Total marriages changed into a partne...
- Total marriages changed into a partnership.