Latest projections
The latest marital status projections are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Full details can be found here on the National Statistics website.
2003-based projections
Background, assumptions and summary analysis
- Press release (Adobe Acrobat PDF document 127kb, PDF Help)
- Base population
- Method of projection
- Consistency constraints
- Marriage rate assumptions
- Divorce rate assumptions
- Mortality by marital status
- Migration by marital status
- Cohabitation assumptions
- Summary results
- Population pyramids
- Projections of marriages and divorces
- Population by partnership status
- Marriages abroad
Principal projection results
Legal Marital status
Cohabitation
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For results of variant marital status projections please click the link.