Marriages and Divorces 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Reference ID

zaf-statssa-md-2024-v1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/nbz2-1504

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Statistics South Africa

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Civil Registration Data

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May 08, 2026

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May 13, 2026

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Marital status of Bridegroom (BridegroomStatusCode)

Data file: md-2024-civil-marriage-v1

Overview

Valid: 97510

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 2.315957337709

Standard deviation: 2.9050066751474

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	77463	79.4%
2	Divorcee	4187	4.3%
3	Widower	458	0.5%
9	Unspecified	15402	15.8%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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