Stats

• (2024) 20% of marriages end in the first 5 years.
• (2024) 32% of marriages end in the first 10 years.
• (2018)

  • 18% of family households = cohabiting
  • 67% married
  • 15% lone-parent.
• (2018)

  • The Total Fertility Rate = 1.8 – (average of 1.8 babies per woman)
• (2023)

  • cost of raising a child to age 18 = £166,000 for a couple
  • £220,000 for a lone parent.
• (2024)

  • women life expectancy = 82.57 years
  • 78.57 years for men
• (2019)

  • Single person households spend 92% of their disposable income
  • compared to only 83% for couples

  9% gap
• (2019)

  • The number of church weddings is declining. Only 18.2% of weddings were church ceremonies in
• (2022)

  • The number of cohabiting couples is increasing. (2022) 18.4% of families were cohabiting
  • This is up from 15.7% of families (2012)
• (2019)

  • The marriage rate halved between 1991 and 2019. For women the rate declined from 34/1000 (1991) to just 18/ 1000 (2019)
• decrease is religion with 49% of the UK said they believed in god in 2022 – down from 75% in 1981.