Slovenia has the lowest marriage rate in the EU, but also one of the lowest divorce rates among the 27 EU member states, according to a report from the Slovenian Statistics Office.
While 6,373 couples married in Slovenia 2007, 2,617 got divorced. This means that Slovenia recorded 3.2 marriages per 1,000 inhabitants.
The national Statistics Office quotes Eurostat data showing that among other EU members only Bulgaria had less than 4 marriages per 1,000 people (3.9).
Low marriage rates were also reported by Hungary, Luxembourg (both 4.1), France and Italy (both 4.3).
On the other hand, Romania was the country with the highest marriage rate, recording 9 marriages per 1,000 inhabitants.
Slovenia had a relatively high divorce rate at 1.3 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2007 when compared to the number of inhabitants and the number of marriages, but still one of the lowest when compared to other EU countries.
Lower rates were only reported by Greece and Italy.
The couples divorced in 2007 had been married for an average 13.5 years or 0.3 years less than those who got divorced in 2006. Nearly half of the couples that got divorced last year were without dependent children.
The remaining 1,348 divorced couples had 2,062 children, most of them having one dependent child (27.0%), followed by couples with two dependent children (22.0%).
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