In 2025, about 24,700 couples are expected to get married in Singapore, a 6.2% decrease from 2024. This will be the lowest number since the pandemic years and the second lowest since 2015.
According to data published online by the Singapore Department of Statistics and reported by Lianhe Zaobao, the number of marriages in the past ten years has fluctuated: in 2020, pandemic restrictions disrupted wedding plans and marriage numbers fell to a low, with only around 22,651 couples getting married. The following two years saw a brief rebound, with a peak of nearly 30,000 marriages (29,389 couples) in 2022.
From 2023 to 2025, the number of marriages will fall for three consecutive years, at 28,310, 26,328, and 24,687 couples respectively, with the 2025 figure being the second lowest in the past decade.
The continuous decline in marriages may place pressure on Singapore’s already very low Total Fertility Rate (TFR)—the average number of children born to women of childbearing age—which has remained persistently low in recent years. Even in 2024, the Year of the Dragon, which is traditionally considered an auspicious year for childbirth by the Chinese community, the TFR was only 0.97, almost the same as the 2023 Year of the Rabbit; data for 2025 has yet to be released.
In 2022, the overall TFR was 1.04, and 1.12 in 2021—both below the replacement level of 2.1, which is the fertility rate required for one generation to naturally replace the next.