KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Malaysia has recorded a lower number of marriages and divorces in 2023, official data showed Thursday.
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement that the number of marriages in the country stood at 188,100 in 2023, a decrease of 12.5 percent as compared to 215,022 in 2022.
Thus, the crude marriage rate decreased to 5.7 per thousand population in 202