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Lesbian couples likelier to break up than male couples
More lesbian than gay couples decide to break up.
Fewer marriages, more registered partnerships
Last year nearly 13 thousand partnerships were signed, i.e. 2.5 thousand more than in 2014.
On an average day
Explainimation 'On an average day'
Births and marriages both fall in 2013
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...
Marriages
Marriages and civil partnerships in the Netherlands
One in ten 'young' brides are over 40
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...
One quarter of couples married in the early 1990s are divorced 20 years later
One in six couples who married around 1970 were divorced 20 years later. The ratio for couples married in the early 1990s will be one in four.
Four out of five Turks and Moroccans marry within their own circles
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.
Birth rate up for the first time since 2000
In the first nine months of this year, 140 thousand children were born, nearly 3 thousand more than in the same period last year.
Thirty thousand couples separated through flash divorce
Some 30 thousand Dutch couples separated by using the flash divorce procedure in the period 2001-2009. The highest numbers of flash divorces were recorded in the years from 2003 to 2005, when around...
Decrease in marriage migration comes to an end
The decrease in the number of marriage migration came to an end in 2008. Just as in 2007, 8 percent of people in the Netherlands with a foreign background who married, did so with a partner who...
Turkish, Moroccan, Dutch relationships equally stable
Almost 3/4 of couples with a Turkish, Moroccan or native Dutch background are still together after 12 years.
Declining birth rate puts the brakes on population growth
142 thousand children were born during the first nine months of 2005. Since this is 4 thousand less than in the same period of 2004, Dutch population growth is slowing down.