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. 2022 Jun 21;9:331. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01383-6

Table 4.

Marital status of participants overall and across countries with more than 200 participants.

Residing Country Single (%) Dating (%) Married (%) Cohabitating (%) Sep/Divorced (%) Widowed (%) Pop_Married (per 1000 habitants)
All Countries 31.9 15.0 33.5 11.9 4.6 1.0
Russian Federation 34.9 23.1 23.3 9.2 4.4 0.6 9.2
Japan 35.3 5.3 50.2 1.1 4.7 0.9 4.9
Finland 19.6 7.0 42.7 20.4 7.5 1.6 4.8
Switzerland 21.4 4.6 33.7 33.7 3.2 1.9 4.8
Spain 25.4 16.3 34.4 17.6 5.0 0.9 3.7
Colombia 29.6 15.0 31.6 15.7 7.1 0.7 2.2
Portugal 44.6 23.8 20.5 7.0 2.9 1.2 3.3
Brazil 28.8 16.7 36.2 10.0 7.1 0.7 4.7
Honduras 45.7 30.1 11.7 8.9 2.1 0.2 2.6
Ireland 44.1 27.7 15.7 9.5 2.5 0.2 4.6
Norway 14.6 9.0 35.1 32.2 5.1 0.8 4.4
Czech Republic 22.2 14.8 35.1 21.9 3.0 1.1 5.0
Slovakia 26.5 23.0 32.6 8.3 8.0 0.3 5.8
Italy 24.2 17.1 34.8 10.0 8.4 2.3 3.2
Bulgaria 17.4 18.1 33.4 17.7 5.4 5.0 4.0
Ecuador 40.9 18.2 26.5 7.9 5.8 0.7 5.6
Uruguay 15.3 11.8 39.6 19.8 10.1 2.8 3.7
Guatemala 26.8 16.4 41.5 8.0 5.9 0.7 4.4
Costa Rica 30.0 20.0 25.6 19.6 3.7 0.7 5.2
Kyrgyzstan 28.3 9.4 42.9 3.9 5.5 1.6 8.4
Ukraine 27.8 12.7 39.3 11.5 6.7 0.4 5.9
Estonia 18.7 9.3 34.6 31.3 4.1 1.2 4.9
Malaysia 64.9 14.7 16.4 0.9 0.9 0.4
Taiwan 43.0 15.8 31.7 7.7 1.4 0.0
Turkey 61.0 24.0 8.0 3.0 0.5 1.0 7.1

Abbreviations: Single = proportion of single participants. Dating = proportion of participants who are dating. Married = proportion of married participants. Cohabiting = proportion of participants who are cohabiting. Sep/Divorced = proportion of participants who are separated or divorced. Widowed = proportion of participants who are widowed. Note that full dataset contains additional categories. Pop_Married = for comparison, this variable includes the yearly marriage rate (variable dates from 1986–2018) per 1,000 people in the equivalent population, using data compiled from the Eurostat dataset (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title = Marriage_and_divorce_statistics#Fewer_marriages.2C_more_divorces), the OECD Family Database (https://www.oecd.org/els/family/database.htm), and the UN World Marriage Database (https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/dataset/marriage/data.asp), under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)43.