Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 19
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: The number of registered marriages in Iran has decreased by 6.5 percent and the formation of single-member families is on the rise in the country.
Ali-Akbar Mahzoon, an official with Iran's National Organization for Civil Registration, said between 2011 and 2014 marriage was declining, so that some 724,000 marriages were registered in the country in the past Iranian fiscal year (March 2013-March 2014), a 6.5 percent fall year on year.
Single-member families are on the rise, so that they have increased from 5.2 percent of total families in Iranian year 1385 (March 2006-March 2007) to 7.1 percent in the latest census.
The official went on to say that 61 percent of Iranian families live in the form of husband, wife, and child, 14.6 percent live in the form of husband and wife, and 3.84 percent live in the form of generations.
Mahzoon added that 12 percent of families have a female breadwinner. Last year, some 163,000 divorces were registered in the country, he concluded.
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