SA men waiting longer to put ring on finger - Stats SA
Updated | By Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile
Statistics South Africa’s 2019 Marriages and Divorces Report says men are getting married older and single women are more likely to married to male divorcees.
In 2015, most men married at the age of 36. This has increased to 37 in 2019. The same goes for brides, who married at 31 years old in 2015 and 33 in 2019.
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The data also shows that men tend to marry younger women, in the same period only 16.0% were younger than their brides and 7.8% were the same age.
“However, the magnitude differs by the marital status of the spouses at the time of marriages. For example; 43.8% of never married men who married divorcees were younger than their brides and 10.6% of male divorcees who married widowed women were also younger than their brides. A relatively smaller percentage (5.3%) was observed for male divorcees marrying never married women who were older than them,” the report says.
According to the report; median age for male divorcees ranges between 55 years in 2015 to 57 years in 2019.
“The median age for female divorcees ranged between 48 years in 2015 and 50 years in 2019. There was a seven-year age difference in the median ages between male and female divorcees who married in 2019.”
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