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Marriages and Crude marriage rate. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Marriages and Crude marriage rate. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2016
Value Variation (%) Rate per 1,000 inhabitants
Alt Camp 158 -9.2 3.6
Alt Empordà 492 3.6 3.6
Alt Penedès 482 27.5 4.6
Alt Urgell 59 -3.3 2.9
Alta Ribagorça 16 128.6 4.2
Anoia 440 -0.5 3.7
Aran 47 14.6 4.8
Bages 708 13.5 4.1
Baix Camp 726 0.3 3.9
Baix Ebre 247 -3.9 3.2
Baix Empordà 553 -1.4 4.2
Baix Llobregat 3,298 6.7 4.1
Baix Penedès 402 5.0 4.0
Barcelonès 8,470 9.1 3.8
Berguedà 146 24.8 3.7
Cerdanya 43 -39.4 2.4
Conca de Barberà 79 2.6 3.9
Garraf 704 9.7 4.8
Garrigues 51 -17.7 2.7
Garrotxa 225 7.7 4.1
Gironès 720 -1.1 3.9
Maresme 1,904 -2.3 4.3
Moianès 66 0.0 5.0
Montsià 240 22.4 3.6
Noguera 112 3.7 2.9
Osona 663 5.9 4.3
Pallars Jussà 57 90.0 4.3
Pallars Sobirà 18 -10.0 2.6
Pla d'Urgell 109 29.8 3.0
Pla de l'Estany 112 -7.4 3.6
Priorat 28 -26.3 3.0
Ribera d'Ebre 88 20.5 4.0
Ripollès 89 -2.2 3.6
Segarra 69 15.0 3.1
Segrià 725 7.6 3.5
Selva 620 -6.1 3.7
Solsonès 64 1.6 4.8
Tarragonès 1,019 9.1 4.1
Terra Alta 25 -32.4 2.2
Urgell 130 18.2 3.6
Vallès Occidental 3,299 7.3 3.7
Vallès Oriental 1,852 9.6 4.6
Catalonia 29,355 6.4 3.9
Metropolità 18,859 7.2 4.0
Comarques Gironines 2,811 -1.2 3.8
Camp de Tarragona 2,010 3.2 3.9
Terres de l'Ebre 600 6.6 3.3
Ponent 1,196 8.9 3.3
Comarques Centrals 1,634 9.4 4.1
Alt Pirineu i Aran 240 4.3 3.3
Penedès 2,005 10.0 4.3
Barcelona 22,025 7.6 4.0
Girona 2,853 -1.6 3.8
Lleida 1,465 9.7 3.4
Tarragona 3,012 4.1 3.8
Source: Idescat. Marriages Statistics.
Notes:
On July 3, 2005 Law 13/2005, of July 1 came into force, which allows marriages between people of the same sex.
From 2012 onwards, as well as marriages of the population resident in Catalonia carried out within Catalonia, this also includes marriages of residents in Catalonia carried out in other autonomous communities.
From March 2014 onwards, eight municipalities in L'Anoia will change designation and will belong to El Penedès region of the Central Counties.
The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.

Last update: January 10, 2018. Revised series on March 13, 2024.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Marriage
Legal union of two people of the opposite sex, determined by civil, religious or other means determinated by the national laws of a country. On July 3, 2005 Law 13/2005, of July 1 came into force, which allows marriages between people of the same sex.
Crude marriage rate
Ratio between the number of weddings in a certain year and the population halfway through the period. Expressed in so many per thousand.

Methodological aspects

The Marriages Statistics provide information on the number and characteristics of the marriages of residents of Catalonia entered into during a given year.

The Marriages Statistics provides annual information on marriages and spouses who take up residence in Catalonia, according to demographic, social and territorial characteristics.

The statistics are compiled based on the data from the registration of marriages in the Civil Register. The data include all marriages that establish their residence in Catalonia, both those registered in the civil registers of Catalonia and those registered in the civil registers of other autonomous communities. In 2011 and previous years, the data refer only to registrations in Catalonia of marriages that established their habitual residence in Catalonia.

Idescat compiles this statistical operation in collaboration with the INE.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.