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Unmarried couples outnumber married couples in Brazil
November 06, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: The number of unmarried couples living together in Brazil has surpassed the number of married couples for the first time, official statistics show.
The 2022 census found that 38.9% of couples were unmarried, while 37.9% had married in a religious ceremony. In 1970, 64.5% of Brazilian couples were married, and as recently as 2000 that figure was 49.4%.
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