2025 registrations
676.3
10,000 couples · full calendar year
Population · marriage registration
Marriage registrations
This is the administrative count of registered couples, not the number of people marrying. The main line contains completed calendar years only: 1978–2025. No partial 2026 observation is appended as if it were a full year.
2025 year over year
+10.8%
2024: 610.56 × 10,000 couples
Historical peak
1,346.93
2013 · 10,000 couples
2025 vs peak
-49.8%
Despite the 2025 rebound, the level remains roughly half below the 2013 peak
Read the unit first
6.763 million couples, not 6.763 million people
The official metric is published in 10,000 couples. A couple involves two registered persons, but this page does not convert the series into a people count because the official statistical concept is registered couples.
Annual-line rules
1978–2024: National Bureau of Statistics
2025: MCA completed Q4 cumulative annual total
2026 quarterly values: excluded from the annual line
1978–2025
Annual marriage registrations in China
The main chart shows 48 completed calendar years. The series peaks in 2013; registrations fell to 6.1056 million couples in 2024 and rebounded to 6.763 million in 2025.
Source: NBS · China Statistical Yearbook 2025 ↗ · MCA · 2025 Q4 cumulative release ↗ · NBS through 2024; MCA completed Q4 cumulative annual total for 2025. No partial 2026 data are included.chinainfigures.com
1,346.93
Peak in 2013
The highest year in this series is 2013, with 13.4693 million registered couples. The longer-run trend then turns downward.
814.3
A sharp low in 2020
Registrations were 8.1433 million couples in 2020. The observation falls in the pandemic shock year, but this page reports the statistical change rather than inferring causality from a single time series.
+10.8%
Annual rebound in 2025
The 2025 total increased from 2024, but remained 49.8% below the 2013 peak. A one-year rebound does not by itself establish a reversal of the long-term trend.
Complete annual data
Exact annual values, 1978–2025
The table is sorted newest first. The source switches to MCA in 2025 and the data layer preserves a separate series_id.
| Year | Marriage registrations | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 676.3 | MCA |
| 2024 | 610.56 | NBS |
| 2023 | 768.2 | NBS |
| 2022 | 683.5 | NBS |
| 2021 | 764.3 | NBS |
| 2020 | 814.3 | NBS |
| 2019 | 927.3 | NBS |
| 2018 | 1,013.9 | NBS |
| 2017 | 1,063.1 | NBS |
| 2016 | 1,142.8 | NBS |
| 2015 | 1,224.7 | NBS |
| 2014 | 1,306.7 | NBS |
| 2013 | 1,346.9 | NBS |
| 2012 | 1,323.6 | NBS |
| 2011 | 1,302.4 | NBS |
| 2010 | 1,241 | NBS |
| 2009 | 1,212.4 | NBS |
| 2008 | 1,098.3 | NBS |
| 2007 | 991.4 | NBS |
| 2006 | 945 | NBS |
| 2005 | 823.1 | NBS |
| 2004 | 867.2 | NBS |
| 2003 | 811.4 | NBS |
| 2002 | 786 | NBS |
| 2001 | 805 | NBS |
| 2000 | 848.5 | NBS |
| 1999 | 885.3 | NBS |
| 1998 | 891.7 | NBS |
| 1997 | 914.1 | NBS |
| 1996 | 938.7 | NBS |
| 1995 | 934.1 | NBS |
| 1994 | 932.4 | NBS |
| 1993 | 915.4 | NBS |
| 1992 | 957.5 | NBS |
| 1991 | 953.6 | NBS |
| 1990 | 951.1 | NBS |
| 1989 | 937.2 | NBS |
| 1988 | 899.2 | NBS |
| 1987 | 926.7 | NBS |
| 1986 | 884 | NBS |
| 1985 | 831.3 | NBS |
| 1984 | 784.8 | NBS |
| 1983 | 765.4 | NBS |
| 1982 | 836.9 | NBS |
| 1981 | 1,041.7 | NBS |
| 1980 | 720.9 | NBS |
| 1979 | 637.1 | NBS |
| 1978 | 597.8 | NBS |
Source boundary
One public line, two lineage series
The NBS annual series ends in 2024; 2025 comes directly from the completed MCA Q4 cumulative release. The data layer does not pretend the two dissemination channels are one lineage series.
Precision boundary
610.56 and 610.6 are consistent
For 2024, the NBS yearbook reports 610.56 while MCA reports 610.6 at one-decimal precision. The two official releases agree after rounding.
Time boundary
Quarterly cumulative data are not annual totals
Only the completed Q4 cumulative period covers the full calendar year. 2026 Q1 or any other partial-year observation must be labelled separately and is not appended to this annual line.
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Marriage registrations annual series prepared
Prepared a 1978–2025 annual registered-marriage-couple series from archived NBS historical/yearbook tables and the completed 2025 MCA Q4 cumulative annual total, with an explicit source boundary and no partial 2026 data.
Related sources: National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗ · National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗ · Ministry of Civil Affairs of China ↗
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