“Marriage boom”: in which regions Ukrainians most often got married during the war
During the full-scale invasion, Ukraine recorded 4% more marriages than in 2021. Their number increased for the first time in the last 3 years, Opendatabot reports. “A real marriage boom took place in the Kirovohrad (6,473) and Poltava (10,610) regions. Over the year, the number of newly formed families there increased by 1.6 and 1.5 times, respectively,” the company reported. The most marriages were registered in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where 26,534 new families were formed. This is 43% more than in 2021. Photo: prostooleh/Depositphotos Kyiv was also among the leaders – 23,457 new families and Odesa region – 16,980 new families. At the same time, during the war, fewer people married in the occupied and liberated territories. 78% fewer new families were registered in Kherson region, 36% less in Kharkiv region than in 2021. In Chernivtsi region, a decline in the number of marriage registrations was also recorded – in 2022, their number decreased by almost a third compared to 2021. In addition, in 2022, 40% of divorces were registered – this is the lowest rate in the last 9 years. Ukrainians were also 2.6 times less likely to enter into a marriage contract last year compared to 2021. Only 7 families out of 1,000 signed a contract last year. And in 2021, the percentage of couples who signed a marriage contract was 2%. Read also: The procedure for obtaining birth and marriage certificates abroad has been simplified for Ukrainians – the Ministry of Justice
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