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Fewer Filipinos get married, survey shows

The number of Filipinos tying the knot is continuing to decline, according to the latest data from Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

The number of registered marriages dropped 3.6% to 414,325 in 2015, continuing the trend that resumed in 2013, when the number of weddings fell 8.2% year on year, the sharpest decline over a 10-year period, Business World wrote.
The 2015 decline was seen in 15 out of 18 regions in the country, according to the PSA.

The report excludes the number of late registrations and of Filipinos who married abroad.

Median age for brides in 2015 is 26 years old, slightly maturing from 25.3 years old in 2013. Median age for grooms was unchanged at 28 years old.

The most number of brides — at 34% of the total number of marriages — tied the knot when they were aged between 20 and 24 years old. For grooms, the biggest number of them (35.2%) tied the knot between the ages 25-29.

The number of teenage brides — or those ages 15-19 — reached 37,281 or 9% of the total number of brides, and was more than four times the 8,059 teenage grooms that year.

Girls who married before turning 15 years old numbered 19 while only one registered minor-aged groom married that time.

Matrimonial ceremonies solemnized through civil rites accounted for 42.7% of the marriages, followed by Roman Catholic Church weddings at 36.2%.

Marriages held by other religious rites, Muslim rites and tribal rites account for 19.1%, 1.2% and 0.8%, respectively.

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