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Canada

Canada Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Childless women, aged 40-44 16% 1991 3rd out of 22
Contraception use among married women > Any method 74% 2002 9th out of 25
Contraception use among married women > Any method > Percentage 74% 2002 9th out of 25
Contraception use among married women > Condom 15% 2002 7th out of 22
Marriageable age > Females 18 2014 20th out of 47
Marriageable age > Males 18 2014 20th out of 47
Marriages 147,288 2008 19th out of 105
Marriages per thousand people 4.42 2008 71st out of 94
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 16 2011
Rural marriages per thousand people 1.52 1969 17th out of 20
Teen marriage rate > Women 3.1 2006 11th out of 16
Total divorces 70,226 2008 15th out of 88
Total divorces per thousand people 2.11 2008 37th out of 85
Urban marriages per thousand people 7.15 1969 2nd out of 20
Years spent single before marriage > Females 26.8 years 2002 5th out of 5

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Wikipedia: Marriageable age (Africa); Wikipedia: Marriageable age (South America); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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