SINGAPORE — The post-pandemic wedding rush is over, as fewer couples tied the knot in 2023. A total of 28,310 couples registered their marriages in 2023, a 3.7 per cent fall from the record high of 29,389 marriages in 2022. The data was contained in the inaugural Family Trends Report published by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).
A total of 28,310 couples registered their marriages in 2023, down from 29,389 in 2022.SINGAPORE — The post-pandemic wedding rush is over, as fewer couples tied the knot in 2023.
These statistics have, in previous years, been released in separate reports — for instance, in the Population Trends Report published by the Department of Statistics."In 2023, there were over 28,000 marriages registered, which is over 2,000 marriages more than a decade ago. Overall, the five-year moving average for marriages has been stable," he said.
The report showed that the proportion of ever-married men and women, which includes those who are currently married, widowed or divorced, has fallen. What this means is that there has been a higher proportion of people staying single in the past decade. In 2013, 10 per cent of ever-married female residents aged between 40 and 49 did not have any children, and this rose to 13.9 per cent in 2023.
As a woman's fertility declines with age, having babies at an older age may limit the number of children a woman would eventually have, Dr Mathews said, even if the couple wants more children. Professor Jean Yeung, the director of social sciences at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Institute for Clinical Sciences, said that young adults are more focused on self-development, rather than marriage and babies these days.
For example, the cumulative proportion of marriages that ended before their 10th anniversary fell from 17 per cent among couples who wed in 2005 to 15.3 per cent for those who wed in 2012.
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