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Kiwi cupid was sadly no match for killjoy Covid during 2020, says Stats NZ

Marriages and civil unions were way down on previous years as love-dampening Covid struck New Zealand in 2020, statistics show.

Mike Simpson by Mike Simpson
07-08-2021 07:00
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The number of marriages and civil unions fell sharply in New Zealand during 2020, Stats NZ has announced. As always, Covid-19 is being blamed as the likely cause of the sharp drop in couples saying ‘I do’ during the first year of the pandemic.

“Last year, 16,779 New Zealand residents celebrated a marriage or civil union,” noted Hamish Slack, the Population Estimates and Projections Manager at Stats NZ.

“Marriages and civil unions have decreased over the last couple of years, down from 19,071 in 2019 and 20,949 in 2018. But with a sharper drop in 2020 than in previous years, [it is] likely due to the pandemic.”

Noticeable drop in marriages during Alert Level 4

According to Stats NZ, there was a noticeable drop in marriages coinciding with Covid Alert Level 4. During the second quarter (April–June 2020) there were only 1,278 marriages and civil unions, compared with 3,957 in 2019.

However, during the other three quarters there were slightly more marriages per quarter in 2020, compared with 2019.

The rate of marriages per 1,000 people eligible to marry in New Zealand dropped to its lowest-ever rate of 8.3 in 2020.

This is likely the result of the drop in number of marriages and the continuing population increase. The peak marriage rate was in 1971, with 45.5 couples tying the knot per 1,000 eligible people. It has been trending downwards ever since.

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Divorces during pandemic are not measurable yet

Married couples in New Zealand are required to be separated for at least two-years prior to applying for a divorce, which means the effect of Covid-19 on divorces cannot be determined yet, Stats NZ said.

After a rise in the number of couples granted a divorce in 2019 (8,388 divorces, compared with 7,455 in 2018), the number dropped to 7,707 in 2020. This continues the general downward trend in divorces since the peak in 1982.

In 2020 the divorce rate was only 7.6 per 1,000 married couples, compared with an average of 8.4 over the previous five years. 

Sharp drop in marriages for overseas residents

The impact of Covid border closures was reflected in the sharp drop in marriages and civil unions for overseas residents in New Zealand. In 2020, only 1,248 marriages and civil unions were registered to overseas residents – down from 2,889 in 2019 and 3,120 in 2018.

For the overseas residents that did marry in New Zealand in 2020, 90 percent of these marriages took place in the months of January-March, before Alert Level 4 lockdown restrictions came into place in late March.

Only 96 of the marriages and civil unions registered to overseas residents were for same-sex couples. This made-up about 20 percent of all same-sex couples marrying or forming a civil union in 2020.

The figure is down from 264 overseas same-sex couples in 2019, or 39 percent of all same-sex couples. In 2018, 381 overseas marriages were same-sex couples, making up 43 percent of all same-sex couples.

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