| 23-42 Number of Marriages and Divorces | ||||||||
| Year | Total Number | Registered | Registered Marriages | Crude | ||||
| of Registered | Marriages | First | Re-marriages | with Foreigner and | Divorces | Divorce | ||
| Region | Marriages | in the | 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 | 0.9 | |
| 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 | |
| 2006 | 945.0 | 938.2 | 1705.6 | 184.4 | 6.8 | 189.3 | 1.46 | |
| Beijing | 17.1 | 17.0 | 29.4 | 4.8 | 0.1 | 3.6 | ||
| Tianjin | 8.4 | 8.3 | 14.3 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 2.1 | ||
| Hebei | 55.5 | 55.5 | 100.4 | 10.6 | 9.2 | |||
| Shanxi | 20.2 | 20.2 | 37.7 | 2.7 | 3.0 | |||
| Inner Mongolia | 16.3 | 16.3 | 29.6 | 3.0 | 4.1 | |||
| Liaoning | 31.2 | 30.9 | 51.7 | 10.6 | 0.3 | 10.7 | ||
| Jilin | 19.8 | 19.7 | 35.0 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 7.6 | ||
| Heilongjiang | 23.2 | 22.9 | 41.0 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 9.9 | ||
| Shanghai | 16.6 | 16.3 | 27.3 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 4.7 | ||
| Jiangsu | 59.2 | 59.1 | 105.7 | 12.8 | 0.2 | 11.0 | ||
| Zhejiang | 41.6 | 41.3 | 75.8 | 7.5 | 0.3 | 8.3 | ||
| Anhui | 47.9 | 47.8 | 88.4 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 6.6 | ||
| Fujian | 32.9 | 31.5 | 60.6 | 5.2 | 1.4 | 5.1 | ||
| Jiangxi | 31.6 | 31.4 | 59.4 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 4.5 | ||
| Shandong | 73.9 | 73.8 | 135.0 | 12.8 | 0.1 | 10.9 | ||
| Henan | 54.8 | 54.6 | 103.2 | 6.4 | 0.1 | 10.0 | ||
| Hubei | 44.6 | 44.3 | 82.2 | 6.9 | 0.2 | 8.2 | ||
| Hunan | 48.9 | 48.5 | 90.4 | 7.3 | 0.4 | 9.3 | ||
| Guangdong | 75.3 | 73.9 | 142.2 | 8.4 | 1.5 | 8.9 | ||
| Guangxi | 39.0 | 38.6 | 73.7 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 4.7 | ||
| Hainan | 5.4 | 5.2 | 9.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | ||
| Chongqing | 21.9 | 21.8 | 34.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 8.2 | ||
| Sichuan | 45.2 | 44.9 | 76.1 | 14.3 | 0.3 | 14.8 | ||
| Guizhou | 21.3 | 21.2 | 39.4 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 4.2 | ||
| Yunnan | 25.4 | 25.4 | 46.6 | 4.3 | 4.7 | |||
| Tibet | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||
| Shaanxi | 25.5 | 25.5 | 46.1 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 4.3 | ||
| Gansu | 13.3 | 13.2 | 24.5 | 2.0 | 2.3 | |||
| Qinghai | 3.1 | 3.1 | 5.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.8 | ||
| Ningxia | 5.1 | 5.1 | 9.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.9 | ||
| Xinjiang | 20.1 | 20.1 | 29.2 | 11.0 | 7.7 | |||
| a) Method for computing the Crude Divorce Rate: number of divorced couples is divided by the average population in the current period. This method | ||||||||
| is commonly used internationally. | ||||||||