Admin I Friday, Feb. 09, 2-24
Two decades ago, men were 3.3 years younger and women 3.8 years younger when they first said “I do” in Germany. The average age difference between men and women, meanwhile, has fallen from 3.0 years to 2.5 year during the same period.
According to the data, about 609,800 people married for the first time in 2022 in Germany.
Of those, 36% were younger than 30 years old. Two decades ago, that figured was 52%.
Meanwhile, in 2022, about 10% of all people getting married for the first time was between the ages of 40 and 49, up from less than 6% in 2002.
The difference increased even more significantly in the 50-plus age group: from just over 1% to almost 7%.
The shift can partly be attributed to the aging demographics of Germany as a whole. The proportion of people over the age of 50 has increased from just over 36% in 2002 to just under 45% in 2022.
In total, around 781,500 people decided to get married in 2022, 78% for the first time while about 20% were previously divorced and just over 1% were widowed.
Just under 3% of marriages in Germany in 2022 were between couples of the same sex.
