| 22-47 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 |
| 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 |
| 2006 | 945.0 | 938.2 | 1705.6 | 184.4 | 6.8 | 189.3 | 1.46 |
| 2007 | 991.4 | 986.3 | 1779.7 | 203.1 | 5.1 | 209.8 | 1.59 |
| Beijing | 11.8 | 11.7 | 19.3 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 3.7 | |
| Tianjin | 7.6 | 7.5 | 12.5 | 2.7 | 2.2 | ||
| Hebei | 60.4 | 60.4 | 109.4 | 11.4 | 9.9 | ||
| Shanxi | 23.9 | 23.8 | 44.4 | 3.4 | 3.2 | ||
| Inner Mongolia | 18.6 | 18.5 | 32.9 | 4.3 | 4.7 | ||
| Liaoning | 29.2 | 28.9 | 48.2 | 10.2 | 0.3 | 11.6 | |
| Jilin | 21.1 | 21.0 | 37.1 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 8.3 | |
| Heilongjiang | 25.2 | 25.0 | 43.8 | 6.6 | 0.2 | 10.7 | |
| Shanghai | 12.0 | 11.8 | 18.1 | 5.9 | 0.2 | 4.7 | |
| Jiangsu | 57.1 | 57.0 | 99.9 | 14.4 | 0.2 | 12.7 | |
| Zhejiang | 38.1 | 37.8 | 68.7 | 7.5 | 0.3 | 9.0 | |
| Anhui | 53.2 | 53.1 | 98.3 | 8.1 | 0.1 | 7.4 | |
| Fujian | 35.1 | 34.3 | 64.1 | 6.1 | 0.8 | 5.0 | |
| Jiangxi | 35.6 | 35.5 | 66.5 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 5.1 | |
| Shandong | 74.4 | 74.3 | 133.4 | 15.5 | 0.1 | 12.2 | |
| Henan | 60.1 | 60.0 | 113.6 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 11.2 | |
| Hubei | 48.5 | 48.3 | 89.7 | 7.4 | 0.2 | 9.3 | |
| Hunan | 49.1 | 48.8 | 90.2 | 8.1 | 0.3 | 10.6 | |
| Guangdong | 75.0 | 74.0 | 140.4 | 9.5 | 1.0 | 9.5 | |
| Guangxi | 48.0 | 47.7 | 91.0 | 5.0 | 0.3 | 5.3 | |
| Hainan | 6.4 | 6.2 | 11.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
| Chongqing | 23.9 | 23.8 | 38.4 | 9.4 | 0.1 | 9.2 | |
| Sichuan | 53.2 | 53.0 | 89.5 | 17.0 | 0.2 | 16.7 | |
| Guizhou | 23.5 | 23.4 | 43.2 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 4.6 | |
| Yunnan | 29.7 | 29.7 | 54.7 | 4.8 | 5.1 | ||
| Tibet | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||
| Shaanxi | 27.6 | 27.6 | 49.6 | 5.7 | 5.0 | ||
| Gansu | 11.6 | 11.6 | 21.9 | 1.3 | 2.2 | ||
| Qinghai | 3.1 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | ||
| Ningxia | 4.9 | 4.9 | 9.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | ||
| Xinjiang | 22.6 | 22.6 | 33.1 | 12.2 | 8.2 | ||