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Fewer migration marriages
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...
More migration marriages in 2009
Last year, 30 thousand people with a non-western background got married in the Netherlands. In 9 percent of cases, the partners came to the Netherlands to marry.
The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020
The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020 is the successor to Trends in the Netherlands and the Statistical Yearbooks and Pocket Books.
Marriage
Legal, formally sanctioned living arrangement between two people.
Getting married in Covid times
The number of marriages in the weeks after the introduction of corona measures was lower than in the same period last year. The number of registered partnerships decreased less. CBS chief sociologist...
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...
Groom usually older than bride
In most marriages, the female half is younger than the male half. Marriages in which the husband is much younger are relatively rare.
Fewer young couples getting married
In 2017, 64.4 thousand marriages were contracted and 17.9 thousand civil partnerships were registered in the Netherlands.
Total divorce rate
The percentage of marriages that will end in divorce if the probabilities observed in a given year or marriage cohort remain valid. These probabilities pertain to marriage duration specific mortality...
Population and population dynamics by month; 1995-2018
Monthly statistics, size of the Dutch population and births, deaths, external migration, marriages, divorces and requests for asylum,
Registered partnership
A marriage-like relationship between two people of the opposite or same sex, registered at the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Lesbian couples likelier to break up than male couples
More lesbian than gay couples decide to break up.
Marrying
Contracting a marriage.
CPR
Abbreviation for the Dutch register of births, marriages and deaths.
Flash divorce
Ending marriage by changing it to a registered partnership and then dissolving the partnership.