Denmark: number of church marriages 2021

Over the past 15 years, the number of marriages in churches in Denmark gradually decreased. While over 15,000 people married in churches in Denmark in 2006, the number was almost halved in 2021, dropping below 7,800 marriages. Also the total number of marriages in Denmark decreased over the last years.

Number of marriages performed by church in Denmark from 2006 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of marriages
2021	7,758
2020	7,585
2019	9,817
2018	10,488
2017	10,212
2016	10,318
2015	9,560
2014	9,503
2013	9,587
2012	9,888
2011	9,862
2010	10,956
2009	12,039
2008	14,142
2007	15,065
2006	15,184

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Release date

February 2022

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Region

Denmark

Survey time period

2006 to 2021

Supplementary notes

Only marriages between different sex were counted.

In some of the marriages the sex and age of one of the involved persons is not stated because the person was not in the Danish population register. In these cases the marriages will be defined as marriages of different sex couples. This means that marriages of different sex couples could be overestimated.

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