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Press release No. 301 of 14 July 2022 Number of divorces down 0.7% in 2021
In 2021, approximately 142,800 married couples divorced based on judicial decision in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of divorces decreased by just under 1,100, or 0.7%, compared with 2020. It had …
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Press release No. 181 of 28 April 2022 Record low of marriages and record high of births in 2021
The number of marriages fell to a new all-time low in Germany in 2021. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), approximately 357,800 couples got married in 2021. This was a decrease of 4.2%, or 15,500, compared …
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Press release No. 378 of 11 August 2021 Number of divorces down 3.5% in 2020
In 2020, approximately 143,800 married couples divorced based on judicial decision in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of divorces decreased by just under 5,200, or 3.5%, compared with 2019. This means …
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Press release No. 200 of 26 April 2021 More deaths, fewer births and marriages in 2020
Roughly 773,000 babies were born in Germany in 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a year-on-year decline of about 5,000 children (-0.6%). This was a continuation of the downward trend which began after the last …
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Press release No. N 059 of 21 September 2020 Getting married in times of the corona crisis: number of marriages down by 29,200 in the first six months of 2020
Those who had decided to tie the knot in spring 2020 got the short end of the stick from the middle of March. Municipal authorities limited their services substantially owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Many registrar’s offices reduced ceremonies to …
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Press release No. 268 of 15 July 2020 Number of divorces up 0.6% in 2019
In 2019, approximately 149,000 married couples divorced based on judicial decision in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of divorces rose by just under 1,000, or 0.6%, compared with 2018. This was the …
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Press release No. 262 of 13 July 2020 Fewer births, deaths and marriages in 2019
778,100 babies were born in Germany in 2019. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that their number was down by roughly 9,400 on a year earlier. When the number of births is related to the number of inhabitants, the result is 9.4 …
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Press release No. 251 of 10 July 2018 Number of divorces markedly down in 2017
In 2017, 153,500 married couples divorced based on judicial decision in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that a smaller number was last recorded in 1992 (135,000). Compared with 2016, the number of divorces declined by …
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Press release No. 237 of 11 July 2017 Number of divorces down 0.6% in 2016
In Germany, 162,397 married couples divorced in 2016, representing a decrease of just under 1,000, or 0.6%, on the previous year. In most cases, the divorce was preceded by a one-year period of separation of the partners (82.6%). The Federal …
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Press release No. 249 of 15 July 2016 Number of divorces down 1.7% in 2015
In 2015, 163,335 married couples divorced in Germany, representing a decrease of 1.7% on 2014. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, typically, the couples had been separated for one year (82.9%) or three years (15.8%) before …