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

The number of newly registered partnerships has increased almost every year as of 2001 and since 2014 in particular.

Comparatively many people with a foreign country of origin live in large cities.

In the first seven months of 2022, more couples got married than in the same period of previous years.

Marriages and civil partnerships in the Netherlands

2020 was the year of coronavirus. To what extent was 2020 different from 2019?

The number of concluded marriages during the period week 12 to 20 inclusive this year was almost half of last year's number in the same period.

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

Of all couples who first started cohabiting in 2000, 53 percent were still living together 15 years later. Almost all of the couples who were still united had one or more children together, while 80...

Which relationship last longest? Young cohabitants or married? What is the impact of a larger age gap and of different education levels?

Almost 3/4 of couples with a Turkish, Moroccan or native Dutch background are still together after 12 years.

The second generation of people with a Turkish and Moroccan background are increasingly resembling their native Dutch contemporaries, getting married and having children later. More and more often,...

In 2017, 64.4 thousand marriages were contracted and 17.9 thousand civil partnerships were registered in the Netherlands.

More weddings on Valentine's Day than on other days in February, but the most popular wedding dates are in summer.

Registered partnership has become popular, but 80 percent of unions were marriages in 2016.

Explainimation 'On an average day'

Mixed relationships show strong variations according to migration background

Last year nearly 13 thousand partnerships were signed, i.e. 2.5 thousand more than in 2014.

More lesbian than gay couples decide to break up.

Fewer than 74 thousand marriages and partnership registrations took place in the Netherlands in 2013. This 6 thousand down on 2012. The decrease was completely accounted for by the fall in the number...

More than 78 thousand marriages and partnerships were registered in the Netherlands last year. The number of marriages and partnerships has fallen after 2010. Friday is still the most popular day to...

These and other facts are presented in De Nederlandse Samenleving 2012, Statistics Netherlands’ report on society in the Netherlands (available in Dutch only). The book gives a picture of prosperity...

In 2011 one of the partners moved to the Netherlands to get married in over 8 percent of the marriages involving people with a foreign background. This is slightly less than in the two years before...

In 2010 some 34.5 thousand citizens with a foreign background married in the Netherlands. A quarter of these newly weds had a Turkish or Moroccan background.

Last year, one in ten women who married for the first time were over the age of 40 versus one in hundred in 1980. As more and more couples live together before they marry, the marriage date is more...