More marriages don’t rhyme with more births

More marriages don’t rhyme with more births

The increase in marriages, having implications for birth rates, will essentially be in the birth of second children. And, in Portugal, the ‘first birth’ is clearly dominant.

On July 16, 2021, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported, in its highlight, of a significant increase in marriages in the month of May. 2602 marriages were celebrated, a value that is equivalent to more than triple that observed in the same month of the previous year. This increase is naturally linked to the deflation measures in force. The realization of many of the weddings that had been postponed thus prevents a repeat, in 2021, of the sharp drop in weddings recorded in 2020,…