Marriages

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	5.2	4.9	4.9	4.9  (b)	4.9	4.8	4.8	4.9	4.7	4.5	4.4	..
Euro area (17 countries)	5.1	4.8	4.8	4.7  (b)	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.2	4.1	4.0
Euro area (16 countries)	5.1	4.8	4.8	4.7  (b)	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.2	4.1	4.0
Belgium	4.4	4.1	3.9	4.0	4.2	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.0	3.9	4.1  (p)
Bulgaria	4.3	4.0	3.7	3.9	4.0	4.3	4.3	3.9	3.6	3.4	3.2	2.9
Czech Republic	5.4	5.1	5.2	4.8	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.5	5.0	4.6	4.4	4.3
Denmark	7.2	6.8	6.9	6.5	7.0	6.7	6.7	6.7	6.8	6.0	5.6	4.9
Germany	5.1	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.8	4.7	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.6  (p)
Estonia	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.5	4.5	5.2	5.2	4.6	4.0	3.8	4.1
Ireland	5.0	5.0	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.0	4.9	4.6	4.3  (p)
Greece	4.5	5.3	5.3	5.5	4.6	5.5	5.2	5.5	4.8	5.2	5.0	4.9  (p)
Spain	5.4	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.0	4.8	4.6	4.4	4.2	3.8	3.6	3.4  (p)
France	5.0	4.8	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.3	4.3	4.1	3.9	3.9	3.7  (p)
Italy	5.0	4.6	4.7	4.6	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.1	3.8	3.6	3.4
Cyprus	13.4	15.1	14.5	7.7  (b)	7.2	7.8	6.8	8.1	7.7	7.9	7.3	7.3
Latvia	3.9	3.9	4.2	4.3	4.5	5.5	6.4	6.8	5.7	4.4	4.1	5.2
Lithuania	4.8	4.5	4.7	4.9	5.6	5.8	6.3	6.8	7.2	6.2	5.7	6.3
Luxembourg	4.9	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.1	4.1	3.9	3.5	3.5	3.3
Hungary	4.7	4.3	4.5	4.5	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.1	4.0	3.7	3.6	3.6  (p)
Malta	6.7	5.6	5.7	5.9	6.0	5.9	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.7	6.2	6.2
Netherlands	5.5	5.0	5.2	4.9	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.3
Austria	4.9	4.3	4.5	4.6	4.7	4.8	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.5	4.3
Poland	5.5	5.1	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.4	5.9	6.5	6.8	6.6	6.0	5.4
Portugal	6.2	5.7	5.4	5.1	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.1	3.8	3.8	3.4
Romania	6.1	5.9	5.9	6.2	6.6	6.6	6.8	8.8	6.9	6.3	5.4	4.9  (p)
Slovenia	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.3	2.9	3.2	3.2	3.3	3.2	3.2	3.2  (p)
Slovakia	4.8	4.4	4.7	4.8	5.2	4.9	4.8	5.1	5.2	4.9	4.7	4.7
Finland	5.1	4.8	5.2	5.0	5.6	5.6	5.4	5.6	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.3
Sweden	4.5	4.0	4.3	4.4	4.8	4.9	5.0	5.2	5.5	5.1	5.3	5.0
United Kingdom	5.2	4.8	4.9	5.2	5.2	4.8	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.3	4.5  (p)	..
Iceland	6.3	5.2	5.6	5.1	5.0	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.2	4.6	4.9	4.6
Liechtenstein	7.2	6.0	5.1	4.4	4.8	5.4	4.3	5.2	5.8	4.3	5.0	4.5  (p)
Norway	5.0	4.4	4.5	4.9	4.1	4.8	4.7	5.0	5.3	5.0	4.8	4.6
Switzerland	5.5	5.0	5.5	5.5	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.3  (p)
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	5.3	5.5	6.4	5.5	6.1	6.0	..
Croatia	4.9	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.0	5.2	5.3	5.1	4.8	4.6
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	7.0	6.5	7.1	7.1	6.9	7.1	7.3	7.6	7.2	7.3	6.9	7.2  (p)
Turkey	..	..	..	6.8	8.7	9.0	8.7	9.1	9.0	8.2	8.0	8.0  (p)

(..) - not available
(b) - break in time series
(p) - provisional

Source: Eurostat