| 23-43 Number of Marriages and Divorces | |||||||
| Year | |||||||
| Total Number | Registered | Registered Marriages | |||||
| of Registered | Marriages | First | Remarriages | with Foreigner and | Divorces | Divorce | |
| Region | Marriages | of | Marriages | the Citizen of | Rate | ||
| (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 | 0.44 |
| 1989 | 937.2 | 935.2 | 1796.0 | 74.4 | 2.0 | 75.3 | 0.68 |
| 1990 | 951.1 | 948.7 | 1819.1 | 78.2 | 2.4 | 80.0 | 0.69 |
| 1991 | 953.6 | 951.0 | 1820.3 | 81.6 | 2.6 | 82.9 | 0.72 |
| 1992 | 957.5 | 954.5 | 1832.1 | 76.9 | 3.0 | 85.0 | 0.74 |
| 1993 | 915.4 | 912.2 | 1747.0 | 77.3 | 3.3 | 90.9 | 0.77 |
| 1994 | 932.4 | 929.0 | 1779.3 | 78.7 | 3.4 | 98.1 | 0.82 |
| 1995 | 934.1 | 929.7 | 1776.1 | 83.3 | 4.4 | 105.5 | 0.88 |
| 1996 | 938.7 | 934.0 | 1781.7 | 86.2 | 4.7 | 113.2 | 0.93 |
| 1997 | 914.1 | 909.1 | 1726.0 | 92.2 | 5.1 | 119.8 | 0.97 |
| 1998 | 891.7 | 886.7 | 1675.4 | 97.9 | 5.0 | 119.0 | 0.96 |
| 1999 | 885.3 | 879.9 | 1659.4 | 100.5 | 5.4 | 120.2 | 0.96 |
| 2000 | 848.5 | 842.0 | 1581.4 | 102.6 | 6.5 | 121.3 | 0.96 |
| 2001 | 805.0 | 797.1 | 1481.7 | 112.5 | 7.9 | 125.0 | 0.98 |
| 2002 | 786.2 | 778.8 | 1440.3 | 117.1 | 7.3 | 117.7 | 0.90 |
| 2003 | 811.4 | 803.5 | 1483.9 | 123.3 | 7.8 | 133.1 | 1.05 |
| 2004 | 867.1 | 860.8 | 1569.6 | 152.0 | 6.4 | 166.5 | 1.28 |
| 2005 | 823.1 | 816.6 | 1483.0 | 163.1 | 6.4 | 178.5 | 1.37 |
| Beijing | 9.7 | 9.6 | 15.9 | 3.4 | 0.09 | 3.4 | |
| Tianjin | 6.4 | 6.3 | 10.3 | 2.4 | 0.04 | 1.9 | |
| Hebei | 53.8 | 53.8 | 97.5 | 10.1 | 0.03 | 8.3 | |
| Shanxi | 19.0 | 19.0 | 35.4 | 2.6 | 0.01 | 2.9 | |
| Inner Mongolia | 15.5 | 15.4 | 28.0 | 2.9 | 0.01 | 3.9 | |
| Liaoning | 26.0 | 25.7 | 42.7 | 9.3 | 0.26 | 11.1 | |
| Jilin | 16.8 | 16.7 | 29.1 | 4.6 | 0.13 | 7.3 | |
| Heilongjiang | 22.8 | 22.6 | 39.6 | 6.1 | 0.24 | 9.6 | |
| Shanghai | 10.3 | 10.0 | 16.4 | 4.1 | 0.24 | 3.9 | |
| Jiangsu | 47.2 | 47.1 | 84.7 | 9.7 | 0.14 | 9.7 | |
| Zhejiang | 35.3 | 34.9 | 64.2 | 6.4 | 0.41 | 7.3 | |
| Anhui | 44.0 | 43.9 | 83.4 | 4.7 | 0.09 | 5.8 | |
| Fujian | 27.1 | 25.8 | 49.8 | 4.5 | 1.40 | 3.9 | |
| Jiangxi | 29.5 | 29.4 | 55.4 | 3.7 | 0.15 | 3.9 | |
| Shandong | 63.2 | 63.1 | 114.9 | 11.4 | 0.10 | 9.9 | |
| Henan | 51.3 | 51.2 | 96.4 | 6.2 | 0.13 | 9.1 | |
| Hubei | 39.4 | 39.1 | 71.7 | 7.1 | 0.27 | 7.6 | |
| Hunan | 46.0 | 45.4 | 83.8 | 8.1 | 0.54 | 9.6 | |
| Guangdong | 58.9 | 57.9 | 111.6 | 6.3 | 1.09 | 8.1 | |
| Guangxi | 31.8 | 31.5 | 59.7 | 3.9 | 0.34 | 4.8 | |
| Hainan | 4.1 | 4.0 | 7.5 | 0.7 | 0.14 | 0.6 | |
| Chongqing | 18.5 | 18.3 | 29.5 | 7.4 | 0.14 | 7.3 | |
| Sichuan | 40.8 | 40.6 | 69.4 | 12.3 | 0.26 | 14.1 | |
| Guizhou | 21.1 | 21.1 | 38.2 | 4.1 | 0.07 | 3.8 | |
| Yunnan | 25.1 | 25.0 | 45.7 | 4.5 | 0.05 | 4.7 | |
| Tibet | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||
| Shaanxi | 20.8 | 20.8 | 38.1 | 3.5 | 0.05 | 4.0 | |
| Gansu | 11.5 | 11.4 | 21.0 | 1.9 | 0.01 | 2.3 | |
| Qinghai | 2.9 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | ||
| Ningxia | 4.1 | 4.1 | 7.5 | 0.7 | 0.9 | ||
| Xinjiang | 19.6 | 19.6 | 29.4 | 9.9 | 7.8 | ||
| a) Computational method of divorce rate: number of divorce couples divided by average population at current year. This is an internationally | |||||||
| accepted method. | |||||||