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South Korea

South Korea Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Childless women, aged 40-44 3% 2000 12th out of 12
Contraception use among married women > Any method 80% 2009 3rd out of 18
Marriageable age > Females 18 2014 9th out of 32
Marriageable age > Males 18 2014 15th out of 32
Marriages 329,087 2011 11th out of 84
Marriages per thousand people 6.61 2011 29th out of 83
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 18 2011
Rural divorces per million people 449.95 2011 15th out of 25
Rural marriages per thousand people 1.09 2011 19th out of 26
Teen marriage rate > Women 0.4 2005 11th out of 12
Total divorces 114,284 2011 11th out of 71
Total divorces per thousand people 2.3 2011 23th out of 70
Urban divorces per thousand people 1.77 2011 7th out of 25
Urban marriages per thousand people 5.36 2011 4th out of 26
Years spent single before marriage > Females 26.1 years 1995 3rd out of 7

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Wikipedia: Marriageable age (Africa); Wikipedia: Marriageable age (South America); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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