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Japan Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Contraception use among married women > Any method 54.3% 2005 24th out of 42
Marriageable age > Females 20 2014 4th out of 32
Marriageable age > Males 20 2014 8th out of 32
Marriages 661,895 2011 6th out of 84
Marriages per thousand people 5.18 2011 48th out of 83
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 16 2011
Rural divorces per million people 151.64 2011 23th out of 25
Rural marriages per thousand people 0.382 2011 25th out of 26
Teen marriage rate > Women 0.6 2010 28th out of 37
Total divorces 235,719 2011 4th out of 71
Total divorces per thousand people 1.84 2011 39th out of 70
Urban divorces 216,337 2011 2nd out of 25
Urban divorces per thousand people 1.69 2011 10th out of 25
Urban marriages per thousand people 4.8 2011 6th out of 26
Years spent single before marriage > Females 28.6 years 2000 5th out of 26

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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