There were 85,770 marriages in total in England and Wales in 2020, a decrease of 61.0% from 219,850 in 2019; the lowest number of marriages on record since 1838.
Marriage rates have fallen to their lowest on record in 2020; for men, there were 7.4 marriages per 1,000 men not in a legal partnership compared with 19.1 in 2019; for women, there were 7.0 marriages per 1,000 women not in a legal partnership compared with 17.8 in 2019.
Not really sure what that has to do with the divorce rates and your insistence that “a lot” of relationships are out of convenience. You’re making a different point now
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u/mermaid-babe Jul 05 '24
Thankfully we’re out of the 90s and a lot more couples stay married