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Switzerland

Switzerland Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Contraception use among married women > Any method 82% 1995 3rd out of 37
Marriageable age > Females 18 2014 22nd out of 47
Marriageable age > Males 18 2014 22nd out of 47
Marriages 42,650 2012 16th out of 50
Marriages per thousand people 5.33 2012 20th out of 50
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 16 2011
Rural divorces per million people 500.86 2011 12th out of 25
Rural marriages per thousand people 1.24 2011 17th out of 26
Teen marriage rate > Women 0.7 2009 14th out of 17
Total divorces 17,550 2012 13th out of 36
Total divorces per thousand people 2.19 2012 14th out of 36
Urban divorces 13,603 2011 13th out of 25
Urban divorces per thousand people 1.72 2011 8th out of 25
Urban marriages per thousand people 4.08 2011 10th out of 26
Years spent single before marriage > Females 29.1 years 2001 5th out of 14

SOURCES: 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. 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

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