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Appendix table 1. First marriage rate by age and total period first marriage rate¹ 2007 to 2018, opposite-sex couples

Age	Year
	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Total period first marriage rate	68	71	68	69	64	64	56	54	53	53	50	47
15-19	4,4	4,3	4,4	4,3	4,0	4,0	3,7	3,3	2,7	2,9	2,7	2,4
20-24	31,4	31,2	30,6	29,3	26,5	25,7	23,6	21,9	20,3	18,7	17,3	16,4
25-29	77,9	79,8	75,6	75,1	67,9	68,9	59,1	56,1	53,9	52,0	47,9	44,9
30-34	71,3	73,3	70,2	71,8	68,1	64,6	57,7	56,0	54,3	52,3	49,4	45,4
35-39	38,1	44,0	40,6	43,.0	41,1	42,6	34,6	33,8	35,5	33,7	32,9	29,4
40-44	22,7	25,3	21,4	24,1	22,0	24,3	19,7	18,6	20,2	21,2	21,8	19,0
45-49	18,0	21,8	20,2	19,1	19,8	22,5	17,5	17,8	18,9	21,2	21,5	22,0

1) The total period first marriage rate describes the proportion of women, here per 100 persons, that contract marriage in their lives, on condition that none of them die and that the marriage rate in the pertinent cohort remains constant throughout the period when these women belong to the age groups of 15 to 49 years. It is computed by adding up the age-specific marriage rates of first marriages in the whole period. The marriage rate here is calculated in proportion to those having contracted marriage per all women of the age group.

Source: Changes in marital status 2018. Statistics Finland

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Updated 14.11.2019