In Austria, people have been getting married more often again recently. According to the current edition of the “Family in Numbers 2025” study by the Austrian Institute for Family Research (ÖIF), which covers the year 2024, the number of marriages rose to 6.0 per 1,000 adults during the period. If you look further back, you can see that marriages have tended to decline significantly since the Second World War. Since 2008 the curve has been going in the other direction again. The highest number of marriages after the Second World War occurred in 1987: there were 76,205. According to the report, the reason for this high was a rather unromantic one: the abolition of marriage allowances at the beginning of 1988.
