Funcas

Focus on Spanish Society. May 2022

Fecha: mayo 2022

Section I. Spain in Europe

I.1. Long-term declining marriage rates and the Covid blow

In 2020, Spain registered the lowest number of different-sex marriages since 1975: 87,481. The annual decrease (-46%) was more significant than in other European countries, like Germany (-10%), The Netherlands (-21%), Sweden (-22%) or France (-34%), but not very different from the decreases recorded in other Southern European countries (Italy: -47%;