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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Type of marriage (MarriageType)

Data file: md-2024-divorces-v1

Overview

Valid: 24202

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 4.017808445583

Standard deviation: 3.8416732220361

Type: Discrete

Width: 21

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Civil marriage	14416	59.6%
2	2. Customary marriage	541	2.2%
3	3. Civil union	244	1%
9	9. Unspecified	9001	37.2%

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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