| 23-44 Number of Marriages and Divorces | |||||||
| Total Number | Registered | Registered Marriages | |||||
| Year | of Registered | Marriages | First | Remarriages | with Foreigner and | Divorces | Divorce |
| Marriages | of | Marriages | the Citizen of | Rate | |||
| Region | (10 000 | Mainland | (10 000 | (10 000 | Hong Kong, | (10 000 | |
| couples) | persons) | persons) | Macao, Taiwan | couples) | |||
| 1985 | 831.3 | 829.1 | 1607.6 | 50.5 | 2.2 | 45.8 | 0.9 |
| 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 |
| 2002 | 786.2 | 778.8 | 1440.3 | 117.1 | 7.3 | 117.7 | 1.8 |
| 2003 | 811.4 | 803.5 | 1483.9 | 123.3 | 7.8 | 133.1 | 2.1 |
| 2004 | 867.1 | 860.8 | 1569.6 | 152.0 | 6.4 | 166.5 | 2.5 |
| Beijing | 12.6 | 12.5 | 21.4 | 3.6 | 0.10 | 3.3 | |
| Tianjin | 7.7 | 7.7 | 13.2 | 2.2 | 0.04 | 1.8 | |
| Hebei | 57.5 | 57.5 | 104.2 | 10.8 | 0.02 | 7.7 | |
| Shanxi | 16.2 | 16.1 | 30.2 | 2.0 | 0.01 | 2.7 | |
| Inner Mongolia | 14.8 | 14.8 | 26.9 | 2.7 | 0.02 | 3.7 | |
| Liaoning | 29.3 | 29.0 | 49.7 | 8.4 | 0.25 | 10.7 | |
| Jilin | 17.7 | 17.5 | 30.0 | 5.0 | 0.20 | 7.1 | |
| Heilongjiang | 23.8 | 23.5 | 41.0 | 6.0 | 0.28 | 9.3 | |
| Shanghai | 12.5 | 12.2 | 20.3 | 4.2 | 0.26 | 3.6 | |
| Jiangsu | 51.6 | 51.5 | 94.0 | 9.0 | 0.14 | 9.1 | |
| Zhejiang | 39.9 | 39.5 | 72.2 | 6.8 | 0.45 | 6.9 | |
| Anhui | 45.1 | 45.0 | 85.5 | 4.5 | 0.09 | 5.3 | |
| Fujian | 29.5 | 27.9 | 52.9 | 3.0 | 1.55 | 4.3 | |
| Jiangxi | 29.6 | 29.4 | 56.0 | 2.8 | 0.17 | 4.0 | |
| Shandong | 75.9 | 75.9 | 138.7 | 13.0 | 0.09 | 8.9 | |
| Henan | 50.6 | 50.5 | 95.6 | 5.4 | 0.14 | 8.7 | |
| Hubei | 38.1 | 37.9 | 70.6 | 5.2 | 0.25 | 7.0 | |
| Hunan | 42.6 | 42.3 | 78.2 | 6.3 | 0.30 | 8.1 | |
| Guangdong | 62.1 | 61.2 | 117.4 | 5.1 | 0.91 | 7.3 | |
| Guangxi | 34.4 | 34.1 | 64.9 | 3.3 | 0.32 | 4.0 | |
| Hainan | 3.9 | 3.8 | 6.9 | 0.6 | 0.10 | 0.5 | |
| Chongqing | 19.0 | 18.9 | 30.7 | 7.1 | 0.16 | 6.6 | |
| Sichuan | 44.3 | 44.0 | 75.8 | 12.2 | 0.27 | 13.1 | |
| Guizhou | 22.4 | 22.3 | 41.5 | 3.1 | 0.07 | 3.7 | |
| Yunnan | 26.4 | 26.4 | 48.7 | 4.1 | 0.06 | 4.3 | |
| Tibet | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |||
| Shaanxi | 20.6 | 20.5 | 37.1 | 3.9 | 0.05 | 4.1 | |
| Gansu | 12.1 | 12.1 | 22.5 | 1.7 | 0.01 | 2.1 | |
| Qinghai | 3.0 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | ||
| Ningxia | 4.1 | 4.0 | 7.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | ||
| Xinjiang | 19.3 | 19.3 | 29.7 | 8.9 | 0.02 | 6.8 | |