Marriages and divorces, 2004 (First Release)
Population		 27.7.2005
 
 

1.    Marriages and divorces

 

1980

1990

1995

2003

2004

 

Sklenitve zakonskih zvez

12 377

8 517

8 245

6 756

6 558

Marriages

Razveze zakonskih zvez

2 309

1 858

1 585

2 461

2 411

Divorces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Na 1000 prebivalcev

 

 

 

 

 

Per 1000 population

  sklenitve zakonskih zvez

6,5

4,3

4,2

3,4

3,3

  marriages

  razveze zakonskih zvez

1,2

0,9

0,8

1,2

1,2

  divorces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Razveze na 1000 sklenitev zakonskih zvez

186,6

218,2

192,0

364,3

367,6

Divorces per 1000 marriages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Povprečna starost

 

 

 

 

 

Mean age

  ženina

27,5

28,7

30,1

32,3

32,6

  groom

  neveste

24,1

25,4

26,9

29,2

29,6

  bride

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ob prvi sklenitvi zakonske zveze

 

 

 

 

 

Mean age at first marriage

  ženina

25,5

26,6

27,9

30,1

30,3

  groom

  neveste

22,5

23,8

25,2

27,5

27,8

  bride

                       

Sources: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of the Interior - Central Population Register
 

COMMENT

For several years Slovenia has been recording a drop in the number of marriages. The reason for this could be in the rise of the number of consensual unions. On average, 8,200 marriages were registered in the 1990s. In 2004 the number of marriages was 6,558, with 5,922 brides and 5,897 grooms marrying for the first time. The mean age at first marriage was 30.3 years for grooms and 27.8 years for brides.

With the drop in the number of marriages in Slovenia the number of divorces has been rising. Nowadays every third marriage ends in divorce. In 2004, 2,411 couples divorced. In 57% of families the divorcing couple had at least one dependent child. A third of marriages that ended in divorce lasted more than 20 years.
 

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Prepared by:
Milena Ilič
 
 
 

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