Iran: half as many marriages as in 2010
892k marriages in 2010, 481k in 2023. Births over these years: 1.34M → 1.17M.
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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
892 (2010) → 481 (2023)
undata: UNdata Iran (Islamic Republic of); data tabulated by year of registration; source year 2013; final figure, complete; Data refer to the Iranian Year which begins on 21 March and ends on 20 March of the following year.; rate from UN Demographic Yearbook 2014 (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2014/Table22.xls), same count, 1 decimal as printed → national: Statistical Centre of Iran, Iran Statistical Yearbook 1402 (2023-2024), English edition, chapter 3 Population (3.pdf, p. 176), table 3.28 'Registered marriages and divorces in urban and rural areas' (Total, marriage; source: National Organization for Civil Registration); Iranian year 1402 (21 March 2023 - 20 March 2024) stored as 2023, as in the existing UNdata rows; footnote: 'revised statistics of events occurring in the reference year', to be revised when late registrations arrive, hence provisional; no crude marriage rate published; level check: same table 1400 = 572 011 vs marriages.csv 2021 = 568 930 (UNdata) (+0.54%), 1399 = 562 217 vs 556 731 (+0.99%), 1398 = 535 849 vs 530 225 (+1.06%): SCI revised these years for late registrations, so 1401 and 1402 (first releases) will probably rise by about 1% too; the Persian yearbook 1401 (table 3-28, same title) prints 1400 = 568 930 (same as marriages.csv 2021 = 568 930, UNdata) and 1401 = 524 139, read from a truncated (first 5 MiB) Common Crawl copy of https://amar.org.ir/Portals/0/PropertyAgent/6200/Files/36991/1401.pdf via Internet Archive snapshot https://web.archive.org/web/20250524001617/https://amar.org.ir/Portals/0/PropertyAgent/6200/Files/36991/1401.pdf; via Internet Archive snapshot https://web.archive.org/web/20251030202709/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/2/PropertyAgent/9663/Files/37178/Iran%20Statistical%20Yearbook%202023-2024%20(1402).rar
- Births thousand births per year
1,338 (2010) → 1,173 (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?