Overview
- Germany registered 349,200 marriages in 2024, the fewest since the data series began in 1950, according to Destatis.
- The proportion of adults who are married fell from about 60% in 1994 to roughly 50% by the end of 2024, while 23.1 million adults were single, just over 33%.
- Average ages at first marriage rose to 32.9 for women and 35.3 for men in 2024, roughly six years higher than three decades ago.
- Divorces ticked up 0.3% to about 129,300 in 2024, and marriages ended later, with an average duration before divorce of 14.7 years.
- Germany remained slightly above the EU average for marriage rates in 2023 (4.3 vs 4.0 per 1,000), and in 2024 about 79% of spouses married for the first time, with nearly 3% of unions same-sex.