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 Bride (BrideStatusCode)

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

Overview

Valid: 97510

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 2.0161932109527

Standard deviation: 2.6192261292227

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	82431	84.5%
2	Divorcee	2859	2.9%
3	Widow	255	0.3%
9	Unspecified	11965	12.3%

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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