Number of marriages in France from 2000-2023

This statistic depicts the total number of marriages in France from 2000 to 2023. In 2000 the number of marriages amounted to over 305,000, this was the highest number of marriages recorded during the 20 year period. In 2020, the number of marriages dropped sharply, indeed, between 2019 and 2020, the number of annual marriages dropped by more than 70,000. But it rose again, reaching 242,000 in 2023.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in France in 2013. Since then the number of same-sex marriages in France reached 7,000 marriages in 2023, with the highest number recorded in 2014 with 10,522 nuptials.