Azerbaijan: 45% fewer marriages than in 2011
88.1k marriages in 2011, 48.5k in 2025. The low was 35.3k in 2020, slightly more since. Births over these years: 176k → 125k (2023).
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The number of marriages registered in a year. There are fewer when people marry later or not at all, and when there are fewer young adults.
The line is marriages per year; the dot is the peak.
- Marriages thousand marriages a year
88 (2011) → 49 (2025)
eurostat: Eurostat AZ (Azerbaijan) → national: State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Demography, table '6.1. Number and crude rates of officially registered marriages and divorces' (urban and rural areas - total, 1935-2025); officially registered marriages; crude rate per 1 000 population as printed; level check: national 2024 = 49 508, same as marriages.csv (UNdata), rate 2024 = 4.9 (marriages.csv 4.9)
- Births thousand births per year
176 (2011) → 125 (2023)
Marriages: UNdata and national statistics. Selection: countries of at least 10 million where marriages fell by 40% or more since 1990, within 20 years of the peak, with data up to 2023 or later; the four most notable.
Marriages and births falling together does not show that one caused the other: both depend on the age structure, housing, incomes and attitudes.
A question for this picture
Are people postponing marriage or giving it up altogether?