SINGAPORE: A record number of couples got married and fewer marriages ended in divorce in 2022, the Singapore Department of Statistics said on Wednesday (Jul 26). A total of 29,389 marriages were registered last year, 3.7 per cent more than the
SINGAPORE: A record number of couples got married and fewer marriages ended in divorce in 2022, the Singapore Department of Statistics said on Wednesday .28,329 marriages registered in 2021This is the highest since data on total marriages registered in Singapore were first compiled and published in 1961.Compared to a decade ago, the general marriage rates for both males and females increased in 2022.
This was partly contributed by the lower number of marriages in 2020 when marriage plans for some were disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.There were 7,107 marital dissolution in 2022, a 9.9 per cent decrease from 7,890 the previous year. At the same time, the median age at divorce rose over the last ten years, from 41.6 years in 2012 to 44.4 years in 2022 for male divorcees, and from 38.0 years to 40.5 years for female divorcees.
The cumulative proportion of marriages that dissolved before the tenth anniversary declined from 17.0 per cent for the 2005 marriage cohort to 14.5 per cent for the 2011 marriage cohort. "It is encouraging to see a decline in marital dissolutions for the more recent marriage cohorts," said Ms Sun Xueling, Minister of State for Social and Family Development and Home Affairs.
In the first two years of marriage, there are marriage preparation, mentoring and support programmes to prepare soon-to-wed and newlyweds for life together, MSF said.
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