23-42  Number of Marriages and Divorces
               
               
  Total Number Registered      Registered Marriages
Year 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 0.9
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
 
  Beijing        9.4 9.3 15.9 2.7 0.08 3.1
  Tianjin        6.3 6.3 10.9 1.6 0.03 1.4
  Hebei          52.4 52.4 95.3 9.5 0.02 5.8
  Shanxi         14.5 14.5 27.3 1.7 0.01 2.3
  Inner Mongolia 13.1 13.0 24.3 1.8 0.02 3.0
  Liaoning       25.4 25.0 42.7 7.4 0.32 8.3
  Jilin          16.2 15.5 27.5 3.6 0.68 4.3
  Heilongjiang   20.5 20.1 34.8 5.4 0.43 7.7
  Shanghai       10.8 10.5 17.2 3.9 0.24 3.3
  Jiangsu        46.1 46.0 85.8 6.2 0.13 6.9
  Zhejiang       36.1 35.6 65.8 5.5 0.43 5.6
  Anhui          42.3 42.3 81.5 3.2 0.06 4.3
  Fujian         28.0 25.6 49.4 1.9 2.47 3.9
  Jiangxi        26.9 26.8 50.8 2.8 0.20 2.9
  Shandong       79.9 79.9 149.5 10.2 0.09 6.8
  Henan          57.0 56.9 108.4 5.3 0.12 6.7
  Hubei          32.9 32.7 61.0 4.4 0.18 5.3
  Hunan          38.4 37.9 69.6 6.3 0.43 5.9
  Guangdong      57.9 57.0 109.1 4.9 0.86 6.0
  Guangxi        29.8 29.6 56.6 2.6 0.31 3.3
  Hainan         3.5 3.4 6.3 0.4 0.11 0.4
  Chongqing      18.0 17.9 30.8 4.9 0.17 5.2
  Sichuan        40.5 40.3 71.5 9.0 0.26 10.7
  Guizhou        23.4 23.3 44.7 2.0 0.08 2.8
  Yunnan         26.5 26.5 49.8 3.1 0.05 3.9
  Tibet          0.5 0.5 0.9 0.1 0.1
  Shaanxi        19.0 19.0 35.6 2.5 0.04 3.4
  Gansu          11.8 11.8 22.2 1.5 0.01 1.9
  Qinghai        3.3 3.3 6.1 0.5 0.7
  Ningxia        3.6 3.6 6.6 0.5 0.6
  Xinjiang       16.6 16.5 25.6 7.6 0.02 5.9