28,310 marriages were registered in 2023, 3.7 per cent lower than the record high of 29,389 marriages registered in 2022. Marital dissolutions rose slightly by 0.2 per cent from 7,107 in 2022 to 7,118 in 2023. Marriage dissolution rates before the 10th marriage anniversary declined among the 2006 to 2012 resident marriage cohorts as compared to the 2005 marriage cohort, from 17.0 per cent for the 2005.
marriage cohort to 15.3 per cent for the 2012 marriage cohort.