Statistics
The Yes word was more in fashion. Just about every second person in Baden-Württemberg is still married. The proportion of single people is steadily increasing, and for many couples, marriage is no longer a promise for life.
Two wedding rings are fixed on the ring pillow during a civil wedding. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa
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Despite a recent increase in the number of marriages, the proportion of married people in the South West has never been as low as it is at present. Last year, as the population grew, 52 percent of adults were married. “This proportion has fallen relatively steadily,” said a spokesman for the State Statistical Office in Stuttgart.
For comparison: in 1980, almost 63 percent of adults were still married. The proportion fell to 56 percent in 2012, in 2017 it was still around 54 percent. According to statistics, a total of around 4.85 million women and men were married at the end of last year.
People take their time
In the search for reasons for the development, the state office struck gold with two main trends: On the one hand, people in Baden-Württemberg are taking longer and longer before they decide to marry – if they do it at all.
The age at marriage has risen steadily over the past few decades, and marriages were also rarer during this period, it said. At the end of 2022, only a good 40 percent of those aged 30 to under 35 were married; in 1980 this was still the case for three out of four people in Baden-Württemberg.
On the other hand, for a growing proportion of couples, saying yes is not a promise “till death do us part”. The divorce rate is increasing. According to statistics, the proportion of divorced people in the adult population in Baden-Württemberg has almost tripled from a little over three percent in 1980 to a good eight percent most recently.
In addition, around three million single adults lived between Mannheim, Ulm and Lake Constance at the end of last year, compared to less than 1.7 million in 1980.
“The proportion of single people has increased steadily in recent decades – mirroring the decline in the proportion of married people,” said the statistics experts. In 1980 it was just under 24 percent; last year it was almost one in three.
Marriage comparatively popular in the Enzkreis
Unsurprisingly, the composition of singles, married couples and widows differs in the cities and districts. Marriage is still comparatively popular in the Enz and Alb-Donau districts, each with 57 percent.
Many singles in Karlsruhe
In Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Tübingen and Ulm, 40 percent or more of the residents are single, in the traditional university cities of Heidelberg (52) and Freiburg (50) it is at least every second person.
The spa and spa town of Baden-Baden has by far the oldest population of the 44 urban and rural districts in the south-west. It also has the most widowers and widows (nine percent), every tenth person there and also in Pforzheim but also divorced.
2023-08-17 03:55:47
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