Number of marriages in Scotland 2000-2017
Number of marriages in Scotland from 2000 to 2017* (in 1,000s)
There were over 28 thousand marriages in Scotland during 2017, of these 27.46 thousand were for opposite sex couples and around 980 were for same-sex couples. Same sex marriage was legalized in Scotland on December 16, 2014 following the Marriage and Civil Partnership Act. Compared with 2000, there was a net decrease of around 1.93 thousand marriages in 2017.
Almost half of Scots married
In 2017, 47 percent of Scots were either married or in a civil partnership, with a further 36 percent of people being single. Divorced and widowed Scots both made up seven percent of the population each, while separated but still legally married Scots accounted for just two percent of the population in this year. For Scots who were married, 33 percent were aged between 45 and 59 with the next most common age group being those aged between 60 and 74 at 28 percent of married people.
Divorces in Decline
There were only 7.9 thousand divorces in Scotland in 2016/17, a net decrease of 5.8 thousand divorces than there were ten years earlier in 2006/07. Although that year saw a spike in the number of divorces, they declined in ever year since then, leading to the relatively few divorces seen in 2016/17.
Number of marriages in Scotland from 2000 to 2017* (in 1,000s)
Loading statistic...
| Opposite sex | Same sex** | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 27.46 | 0.98 |
| 2016 | 28.23 | 1 |
| 2015 | 28.02 | 1.67 |
| 2014 | 28.7 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 27.55 | - |
| 2012 | 30.53 | - |
| 2011 | 29.14 | - |
| 2010 | 28.48 | - |
| 2009 | 27.52 | - |
| 2008 | 28.9 | - |
| 2007 | 29.87 | - |
| 2006 | 29.9 | - |
| 2005 | 30.88 | - |
| 2004 | 32.15 | - |
| 2003 | 30.76 | - |
| 2002 | 29.83 | - |
| 2001 | 29.62 | - |
| 2000 | 30.37 | - |
Source
More information
Statistics on "Marriage and weddings in the United Kingdom (UK)"
Discover Statista
Need help with using Statista for your research?
Tutorials and first steps
Further Content: Statistics, Studies, and Topic Pages
Statistics
- Newly married U.S. adults 2008-2010
- U.S. survey on marriage being obsolete in 2010
- Number of registered marriages in China in 2017, by region
- Italy: share of civil marriages 1950s-2017
- Number of marriages in Poland 1995-2017
- New marriages in Sweden 2018, by age group
- Number of marriages in Turkey between 2016 and 2018, per month
- Marriage rate in Poland 1995-2017
- Number of marriages in Turkey 2001-2017
- Number of annulments by age of the spouse in Spain 2017
- Number of marriages in the Republic of Ireland 2012-2017
- Age distribution of men at their first wedding in the U.S. 1970-2009
- Age of Americans at their first wedding
- Age of women in the United States at their first wedding
- First spouse: place of encounter in France 1984-2006, by gender
- UK: happiness with current relationship status 2017, by usage of adult dating sites
- Canadians' view of marriage as important societal aspect for women 2016
- Ways married people financed marriage South Korea 2018, by gender
- Happiness with current relationship status in the UK June 2017, by gender
- Spouse/partner contact frequency in France 2014
Statistics on "Marriage and weddings in the United Kingdom (UK)"
Related topics
About Statista
