23.okt 2021
50 years ago in Latvia people got married more often, but they also got divorced more often. Between 1970 and 1990, an average of 10 marriages and five divorces per 1,000 inhabitants were made each year. With the restoration of independence, the tendencies of marriage and divorce changed. The was a rapid decrease in not only the number of marriages (on average per 1,000 inhabitants in the last 30 years - only five marriages per year) but also the number of divorces (on average, three divorces per 1,000 inhabitants), according to the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) publication “Demography, 2021”, which collected data on demographic processes in Latvia.