The EU Member States with the highest number of marriages relative to the population were Hungary (6.9 marriages per 1 000 people), Latvia (5.6) and Lithuania (5.5). Highest number of marriages in Hungary, Latvia and Lithuania The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article. This information comes from data on marriages and divorces published by Eurostat today. The unprecedented decrease in marriages can be somewhat attributed to the measures related to limiting the spread of COVID-19. In 2020, some 1.4 million marriages and an estimated 0.7 million divorces took place in the EU, according to the most recent data available for all EU Member States, down from 1.9 million marriages and 0.8 million divorces estimated in 2019.
Interestingly, the divorce rate has decreased in the past decade, from 1.9 per 1 000 people in 2010. At the same time, the divorce rate has doubled, increasing from 0.8 per 1 000 people in 1964 to 1.6 in 2020. Since 1964, the marriage rate in the EU has declined from 8.0 per 1 000 people in 1964 to 3.2 in 2020.
