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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 Catalonia
Value Variation (%) Rate per 1,000 inhabitants
2022 27,100 14.8 3.5
2021 23,601 50.7 3.0
2020 15,662 -41.9 2.0
2019 26,939 -2.9 3.5
2018 27,738 -5.4 3.7
2017 29,335 -0.1 3.9
2016 29,355 6.4 3.9
2015 27,592 2.9 3.7
2014 26,823 3.0 3.6
2013 26,044 -4.8 3.5
2012 27,358 5.9 3.6
2011 25,832 -5.0 3.4
2010 27,178 -1.2 3.6
2009 27,504 -9.5 3.7
2008 30,400 1.4 4.1
2007 29,993 -2.7 4.2
2006 30,819 -1.0 4.4
2005 31,141 -2.8 4.5
2004 32,035 3.8 4.7
2003 30,853 -0.6 4.7
2002 31,052 2.0 4.8
2001 30,442 -3.9 4.8
2000 31,665 3.0 5.1
1999 30,748 -2.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
1998 31,544 5.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
1997 29,883 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
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.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: December 12, 2023. 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.