| 22-37 Number of Marriages and Divorces | ||||||||
| Total | Divorces | Divorce | ||||||
| Number | Registered | Registered Marriages with | Rate | |||||
| Year | of | Marriages | First | Remarriages | Foreigner and the Citizen | (10 000 | ||
| Registered | of | Marriages | of Hong Kong, Macao, | couples) | (‰) | |||
| Marriages | Mainland | Taiwan (10 000couples) | ||||||
| (10 000couples) | (10 000couples) | (10 000persons) | (10 000persons) | |||||
| 1985 | 831.3 | 829.1 | 1607.6 | 50.5 | 2.2 | 45.8 | 0.9 | |
| 1986 | 884.0 | 882.3 | 1707.5 | 57.1 | 1.7 | 50.6 | 0.9 | |
| 1987 | 926.7 | 924.7 | 1788.1 | 61.4 | 2.0 | 58.1 | 1.1 | |
| 1988 | 899.2 | 897.2 | 1728.5 | 65.8 | 2.0 | 65.9 | 1.2 | |
| 1989 | 937.2 | 935.2 | 1796.0 | 74.4 | 2.0 | 75.3 | 1.3 | |
| 1990 | 951.1 | 948.7 | 1819.1 | 78.2 | 2.4 | 80.0 | 1.4 | |
| 1991 | 953.6 | 951.0 | 1820.3 | 81.6 | 2.6 | 82.9 | 1.4 | |
| 1992 | 957.5 | 954.5 | 1832.1 | 76.9 | 3.0 | 85.0 | 1.5 | |
| 1993 | 915.4 | 912.2 | 1747.0 | 77.3 | 3.3 | 90.9 | 1.5 | |
| 1994 | 932.4 | 929.0 | 1779.3 | 78.7 | 3.4 | 98.1 | 1.6 | |
| 1995 | 934.1 | 929.7 | 1776.1 | 83.3 | 4.4 | 105.5 | 1.8 | |
| 1996 | 938.7 | 934.0 | 1781.7 | 86.2 | 4.7 | 113.2 | 1.9 | |
| 1997 | 914.1 | 909.1 | 1726.0 | 92.2 | 5.1 | 119.8 | 1.9 | |
| 1998 | 891.7 | 886.7 | 1675.4 | 97.9 | 5.0 | 119.0 | 1.9 | |
| 1999 | 885.3 | 879.9 | 1659.4 | 100.5 | 5.4 | 120.2 | 1.9 | |
| 2000 | 848.5 | 842.0 | 1581.4 | 102.6 | 6.5 | 121.3 | 1.9 | |
| 2001 | 805.0 | 797.1 | 1481.7 | 112.5 | 7.9 | 125.0 | 2.0 | |