Marriages Civil Unions and Divorces: Year ended December 2007

Key facts

There were 21,500 resident marriages registered in New Zealand during the December 2007 year.
There were 2,000 marriages registered to overseas residents in 2007.
The general marriage rate was 13.6 marriages per 1,000 not-married population aged 16 years and over in 2007.
There were 316 resident civil unions registered in 2007, of which 80 percent were same-sex unions.
There were 77 civil unions registered to overseas residents in 2007.
There were 9,600 orders for dissolution of marriage granted in New Zealand during the December 2007 year.
There were 11.3 divorces for every 1,000 married couples in 2007.

Geoff Bascand	6 May 2008
Government Statistician	ISSN 1178-055X