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Population in The Netherlands by sex, age and marital status, 1 January

In most marriages, the female half is younger than the male half. Marriages in which the husband is much younger are relatively rare.

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

One in five people who marry nowadays have been married before.

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...

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...

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.

Children of couples who married young often start living together when they are young. Children of divorced couples also start living together at a younger age.

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 2011 the average age of divorcing men in the Netherlands was nearly 46 years at the time of divorce. In 1991 this was still only 40 years.

In recent years, the proportion of women who become mothers at the age of 30 has risen, whereas the proportion of low-educated women who become mothers at the age of 30 has in fact declined.

Monthly statistics, size of the Dutch population and births, deaths, external migration, marriages, divorces and requests for asylum,

Households in the Netherlands by size and composition, persons by position in the household on 1 January

Live born children by birth order from the mother, numbers and rates by age of the mother