{"id": 1354407, "name": "Proportions of men or women who had ever married by a certain age for 1990 birth cohort", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-10-23T07:08:55.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T07:08:55.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "17-34", "datasetId": 8238, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "cumulative_percentage_per_100__birth_cohort_1990", "catalogPath": "grapher/ons/2026-10-23/marriages/marriages#cumulative_percentage_per_100__birth_cohort_1990", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 17}, {"id": 18}, {"id": 19}, {"id": 20}, {"id": 21}, {"id": 22}, {"id": 23}, {"id": 24}, {"id": 25}, {"id": 26}, {"id": 27}, {"id": 28}, {"id": 29}, {"id": 30}, {"id": 31}, {"id": 32}, {"id": 33}, {"id": 34}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 246245, "name": "Men", "code": null}, {"id": 246246, "name": "Women", "code": null}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Percentage of men or women born in a given year who had married in England and Wales by a given age.", "descriptionFromProducer": "Marriage statistics are derived from information recorded when marriages are legally registered as part of civil registration.\n\nFigures represent civil and religious marriages that take place in England and Wales only. Marriages to residents of England and Wales that take place outside of England and Wales are not included while marriages that take place in England and Wales to non-residents are included.\n\nAges are presented in 'exact years', so the figures should be interpreted as the proportion per 1,000 men or women that have married up to that actual birthday. So 'by age 30' represents marriages up to the last day a person is 29 (the day before their 30th birthday).\n\nFrom 2014 marriage statistics onwards, ever married will include people entering into a marriage with either an opposite sex or a same sex partner. Same-sex couples converting their civil partnership into a marriage will be included with ever married because previous marital status is unknown; therefore within this table we are assuming a previous marital status (before civil partnership) of never married or civil partnered.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "Marriages in England and Wales", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-10-23", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "1990", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "roundingMode": "significantFigures", "numSignificantFigures": 2}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Share of people born in 1990 who had ever married, by age", "attributionShort": "UK ONS", "topicTagsLinks": ["Marriages & Divorces"]}, "descriptionKey": "- The data covers marriages registered in England and Wales. It doesn\u2019t include marriages of residents that take place abroad, so the true share of people who have ever married could be higher.\n- From 2014, people who married a same-sex partner also count as ever married. The first same-sex weddings in England and Wales took place on March 29, 2014.\n- Same-sex couples who converted their civil partnership into a marriage count as ever married.\n- A new law raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 in February 2023. Before that, people aged 16 and 17 could marry with their parents\u2019 consent, and those marriages are included in this data.", "origins": [{"id": 28231, "title": "Marriages in England and Wales", "description": "Number of marriages that took place in England and Wales by age, sex, previous partnership status, and civil or religious ceremony.", "producer": "UK Office for National Statistics", "citationFull": "Office for National Statistics (ONS), released 18 November 2025, ONS website, dataset, Marriages in England and Wales: 2023.", "attributionShort": "UK ONS", "urlMain": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriagecohabitationandcivilpartnerships/datasets/marriagesinenglandandwales2013", "urlDownload": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriagecohabitationandcivilpartnerships/datasets/marriagesinenglandandwales2013/2023/marriagesworkbook2023.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2026-10-23", "datePublished": "2025-11-18", "license": {"url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriagecohabitationandcivilpartnerships/datasets/marriagesinenglandandwales2013", "name": "Open Government Licence v3.0"}}]}