Marriages

Marriages by selected characteristics since 2009
Characteristics	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Marriages (total)	35.469	37.545	36.426	38.592	36.140	37.458	44.502	44.890	44.981	46.468	46.034
per 1 000 population	4,3	4,5	4,3	4,6	4,3	4,4	5,2	5,1	5,1	5,3	5,2
First marriages (for wife and husband) in %	65,6	65,6	66,0	67,3	67,9	68,4	68,5	69,3	69,1	69,3	69,5
Thereof same-sex-couples	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	3	997
Men	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	468
Women	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	529
Citizenship of spouses in %
one person Austrian, one person Non-Austrian	17,9	18,3	18,9	17,7	18,6	17,9	22,8	26,4	22,5	22,3	22,8
both persons Non-Austrian	5,3	5,2	5,7	5,5	6,3	6,7	7,3	9,3	7,8	7,4	7,6
Median age at first marriage
Husband	31,8	31,9	32,0	32,2	32,2	32,4	32,6	32,6	32,7	32,8	33,0
Wife	29,1	29,3	29,5	29,8	29,8	30,0	30,3	30,3	30,4	30,6	30,8
Number of common premarital children	13.110	14.624	14.020	15.435	14.095	14.867	17.497	18.038	18.514	19.467	18.788
Average number of premarital children per marriage with children	1,36	1,37	1,38	1,40	1,39	1,41	1,42	1,41	1,43	1,44	1,45
NUTS-2-region
Burgenland	1.138	1.206	1.130	1.120	1.068	1.094	1.249	1.254	1.350	1.405	1.362
Carinthia	2.230	2.337	2.296	2.451	2.224	2.349	2.704	2.669	2.749	2.842	2.705
Lower Austria	6.845	7.218	6.861	7.463	6.847	7.030	8.093	8.144	8.143	8.558	8.354
Upper Austria	5.981	6.326	6.295	6.829	6.318	6.519	7.823	7.673	7.886	8.139	7.875
Salzburg	2.212	2.427	2.355	2.473	2.326	2.361	2.887	3.043	3.030	3.102	3.040
Styria	4.966	5.263	5.161	5.481	5.022	5.190	6.150	6.070	6.124	6.389	6.476
Tyrol	2.913	2.977	2.905	3.202	2.999	3.130	3.809	3.905	3.918	4.138	4.017
Vorarlberg	1.469	1.629	1.513	1.635	1.522	1.710	2.261	2.218	2.256	2.250	2.292
Vienna	7.715	8.162	7.910	7.938	7.814	8.075	9.526	9.914	9.525	9.645	9.913
S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Vital statistics. Compiled on 16 July 2020. From 2015 onwards including marriages occuring abroad of persons with main residence in Austria. From 2018 onwards including same-sex couples and from 2019 onwards including conversions of registered partnerships into marriages. Since 1 January 2019, marriage is also recognized for same-sex couples as well as registered partnerships for mixed-sex couples.

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