Number of marriages in France from 2000-2022

This statistic depicts the total number of marriages in France from 2000 to 2022. In 2000 the number of marriages amounted to over 305 thousand, this was the highest number of marriages recorded during the 20 year period. In 2020, the number of marriages dropped sharply. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of annual marriages dropped by more than 70,000. It rose again in 2022, reaching 244,000.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in France in 2013. Since then the number of same-sex marriages in France reached 7,000 marriages in 2022, with the highest number recorded in 2014 with 10,522 nuptials.