The drop in new marriages from 2019 to 2020 is the largest on record
Today, Statistics Canada releases new information on marriages with the collaboration of the vital statistics registrars of each province and territory.
There were 98,355 marriages registered in Canada in 2020, the lowest annual number recorded since 1938 when the population was much smaller than it is today.
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