A modern view on aspects of nuptiality in Bulgaria - a period analysis for the period 1990-2022
A modern view on aspects of nuptiality in Bulgaria - a period analysis for the period 1990-2022

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to identify the course of change in the nuptiality pattern in Bulgaria in the period after 1990. There has been a significant increase in the average age at first marriage over the past three decades. The main difference between the established in the last century model of universal and early marriage in Bulgaria and the modern model of nuptiality, which expresses the most radical change in it, is related precisely to the late start of the family formation and the first marriage. This study is entirely focused on the fundamental demographic parameters of statutory marriage, i.e., age and sex. For the purposes of this study are traced the changes produced in the first marriage timing among men and women. The change to the age-specific nuptiality model coupled with the increase in the average ages of concluding a first marriage lets confirm the hypothesis on the course of the process of first marriage postponement for a later stage within an individual life cycle.

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