While in a longer span (1990-2014) the number of marriages went down by 18%. So if in 1990, the number of marriages was twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-two, in 2014 this number ran at twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine.
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Source: National Register of Civil Status; Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Comments and analyses: ODA
In 2014, Tirana district had the highest number of marriages, where 5.880 couples were crowned in wedding ceremonies, or 25% of the total number of marriages happened in Tirana during this year. Elbasan, Fier and Durres with over two thousand marriages registered at the Civil National Registry were other districts with a great number of marriages.
Source: National Register of Civil Status; Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Comments and analyses: ODA
In an oblique report with marriages, the number of divorces has increased during these 24 years. In 1990, two thousand six hundred and seventy five divorces were recorded whereas in 2014 four thousand two hundred and forty divorces occurred.
Source: National Register of Civil Status; Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Comments and analyses: ODA
The two indicators that show the change of social behavior in our country are the gross marriage coefficient and the divorce coefficient. The gross marriage coefficient is the number of marriages per 1,000 inhabitants in a given year, while the divorce ratio is the number of divorces per 100 marriages in a given year.
In 1990, 8.9 marriages per one thousand inhabitants occurred, while in 2014 this indicator was 8.2. This ratio includes a high margin of error due to calculation methodology used by the Institute of Statistics. While figures concerning marriages are taken from the National Civil Registry, which keeps records on the number of marriages of Albanian citizens not residing in the country, the number of population is calculated according to the latest Census, which didn?t record emigrants residing in foreign countries although they had the Albanian citizenship.
Source: National Register of Civil Status; Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Comments and analyses: ODA
On the other hand, a coefficient of 17.8 divorces per one hundred marriages in 2014 testifies that a new stage of the social model of the Albanian society has already started. During this year, eighteen marriages out of one hundred marriages ended with divorce.
Source: National Register of Civil Status; Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Comments and analyses: ODA
Marriages and Divorces in the Republic of Albania 1990 ? 2014
Source: National Register of Civil Status; Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Comments and analyses: ODA