Big shift in marriages and divorces in South Africa

South Africans are still losing interest in getting married, despite numbers normalising from a significant slump experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic years.from StatsSA, South Africa recorded a nearly 5% annual increase in the number of registered marriages and unions for 2022, versus an 11% climb in divorces.

The median ages of bridegrooms and brides for civil marriages were 38 and 34 years, respectively, while customary marriages were 35 and 29 years old.Over a quarter of the civil marriages were registered in Gauteng, and around 80.2% of the grooms and 85.4% of the brides tied the knot for the first time.“Generally, the warmer months are the most popular months for solemnising marriages in South Africa,” said Stats SA.

“The number of registered marriages consistently declined in the ten-year period except for a slight increase of 0.6% between 2015 and 2016 and an increase of 5% between 2021 and 2022,” said the government stats agency.2022 saw a significant 10.9% increase in divorce forms being processed, sitting at 20,196 for the year.Results also showed that four in ten divorces were from marriages that lasted for less than 10 years.

The provincial distribution indicates that Gauteng, the Western Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal were the provinces with the highest number of divorces granted, contributing 61.6% of all divorces.

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