Weddings Boom To Reach 30 Year High In Hungary

  • 13 Feb 2020 7:31 AM
  • Hungary Around the Clock
Weddings Boom To Reach 30 Year High In Hungary
The number of weddings in 2019 rose to a level not seen in nearly 30 years according to the latest data of the Central Statistics Office.

The Office said in a statement relayed to MTI that more people got married by the end of September 2019 than in all of 2018.

Following a decline in marriages beginning in the mid-1970s, the number of weddings rose by nearly 50% between 2010 and 2016.

The average age for men to marry was 36.6 and for women was 33.5.

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