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1 April marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first same-sex marriage in the Netherlands. Since then, over 36,000 same-sex couples have got married, just over half of which were female couples.

Marriages between partners of the same and opposite sex, partnership registrations and marriage partners

This year, more than 11 thousand people in the Netherlands will celebrate their birthday on Leap Day, 29 February.

The number of couples celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary reached a record high in 2010. This is related to the peak in marriages around 1970.