is a phenomenon directly linked to the coronavirus crisis. In Italy, the pandemic caused a dizzying drop in marriages and divorces in 2020, accentuating a trend that has been going on for many years, according to provisional figures published by the National Institute of Statistics (Istat), this Thursday, February 18. In the first quarter of 2020, affected only in part by the coronavirus pandemic, marriages fell by around 20% compared to the same quarter in 2019, while various separation and divorce proceedings fell by 11-20% , specifies Istat.
The second quarter of 2020, the one hit hard by the epidemic and the restrictions in force, including strict confinement of around two months, recorded an impressive plunge of 80% of marriages over one year and of around 60% for certain types of separation and divorce, according to these provisional figures. The trend seen before the start of the epidemic that Italians marry less and less over the years is therefore continuing as the average age of spouses increases. It went from 32.1 years for men in 2008 to 33.9 years in 2019 and from 29.4 years in 2008 for women, to 31.7 years in 2019.
Another remarkable characteristic delivered by this study in this country with a strong Catholic tradition: the constant increase in civil marriages, which are now more numerous than those celebrated in a church. Italy has thus gone from 2.3% of civil marriages in 1970 to 36.7% in 2008, reaching 52.6% in 2019, indicates Istat.
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