IMMADO TI NAKAASAWA ditoy KALINGA: PSA records 48 percent increase in marriage in second quarter of 2025

Tabuk City, Kalinga – More individuals left their single status and walked down the aisle with their beloved in the second quarter of the year, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority- Kalinga.

Since 2023, a declining trend in marriage among Filipinos has been observed, showing a transformation in how Filipinos, who uphold marriage as a sacred institution, define commitment.

PSA’s civil registration and vital statistics data revealed there were 414,213 couples who got married in 2023, a 7.8% decline from the 449,428 in 2022. The number of people tying the knot continued to drop to 320,524 in 2024, a 22.6% decline, based on data.

The decline, according to the Commission of Population and Development, is attributed to a number of factors, which include more couples living together without getting married, more children being born outside of wedlock, and more young Filipinos are in no rush to get married, and others do not have it in their bucket list.

For Kalinga, the trend is the opposite… marriages are increasing this 2025. According to the data released by the PSA Kalinga, there were 379 marriages registered in the province from April – June 2025. The figure is 48% higher than the 256 in the first quarter this year.

Occupying more than one-third or 38.79% of the data is Tabuk City, the province’s capital, which recorded 147 marriages, followed by Rizal with 76, and Pinukpuk with 63.

Most of the weddings, meantime, were documented in May with 170, followed by April with 138, and June with 71.