Nayarit Finds Couples Are Committing Less to Marriage Pablo Hernandez - Meridiano.mx
go to original February 16, 2022

On the eve of Valentine's Day, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) revealed that in recent years, Nayarit couples are committing less and less to marriage.

According to data from the institution, since 2013 the number of marriages have stagnated at just over 5 thousand per year, however in the last census of 2020, the number fell strikingly by recording only 3 thousand 876; which meant a drop of 29% only in the period 2019-2020.

But this does not necessarily mean that Nayaritans have stopped believing in love and commitment, since it should be remembered that as a result of the first COVID-19 contagion in March 2020; the entity determined to restrict many of the civil and institutional activities, so several of the nuptial celebrations had to be postponed or even canceled.

Despite this drop, the gross marriage rate, which measures marriages per 1000 inhabitants, keeps Nayarit above the national average, far from other states such as Mexico City, Yucatan, Tabasco, Tlaxcala and Puebla, which do not exceed two points in this indicator.

However, just as marriages are down, divorce cases among Nayaritans have also registered a slight decline in recent years, reporting the historical maximum of these cases in 2017, a year in which lovelessness reigned, as the number of new marriages also presented its highest drop until before 2020.

It is worth noting that in Nayarit, most of the population is divided between single people and married people, who equally divide 64 percent of the total population; in contrast to the nuptial decline, during the last five years more and more Nayarit couples decide to live free union or separated.

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