National marriage registrations; marriages, 2024 provisional total.
South Korea recorded 222,422 marriages in 2024. The total was 14.9% higher than a year earlier. The source describes this as the steepest annual increase since comparable records began in 1981. It was also the highest marriage count since 1996.
Source 1: Vital statistics — marriages, 2024
Publisher: Statistics Korea
Dataset/table: Korea vital statistics
Evidence: Supports the 222,422 marriages, the 14.9% rise and the record comparisons.
In Korea, marriage is closely linked to childbearing, so marriage counts lead birth trends by one to two years.
The figure is the preliminary national count of marriages in 2024 from official vital statistics.
Single official source and single year for the headline value.
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