Facts and Figures 2004

Marital status	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Number
Single	28,464	29,060	27,187	22,244	22,729	28,650	31,923	29,691	27,478	29,886
Married	47,551	52,763	50,896	40,762	47,084	55,707	60,621	54,942	52,841	54,938
Separated, divorced, widowed	1,958	2,001	1,804	1,520	1,469	1,727	1,921	1,795	2,408	3,361
Marital status not stated	1	1	1	3	13	80	55	31	13	7
Males	77,974	83,825	79,888	64,529	71,295	86,164	94,520	86,459	82,740	88,192
Single	25,528	23,729	21,290	16,956	16,320	19,385	21,370	20,228	19,104	21,384
Married	54,523	58,984	57,580	47,615	54,551	64,555	70,651	64,957	65,516	67,904
Separated, divorced, widowed	7,907	7,382	6,291	5,066	5,211	6,102	6,776	6,423	7,343	7,418
Marital status not stated	2	0	0	0	12	77	39	20	11	9
Females	87,960	90,095	85,161	69,637	76,094	90,119	98,836	91,628	91,974	96,715
Single	53,992	52,789	48,477	39,200	39,049	48,035	53,293	49,919	46,582	51,270
Married	102,074	111,747	108,476	88,377	101,635	120,262	131,272	119,899	118,357	122,842
Separated, divorced, widowed	9,865	9,383	8,095	6,586	6,680	7,829	8,697	8,218	9,751	10,779
Marital status not stated	3	1	1	3	25	157	94	51	24	16
Gender not stated	4	20	23	7	12	2	0	0	0	0
Total	165,938	173,940	165,072	134,173	147,401	176,285	193,356	178,087	174,714	184,907

Marital status	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Percentage distribution
Single	36.5	34.7	34.0	34.5	31.9	33.3	33.8	34.3	33.2	33.9
Married	61.0	62.9	63.7	63.2	66.0	64.7	64.1	63.6	63.9	62.3
Separated, divorced, widowed	2.5	2.4	2.3	2.4	2.1	2.0	2.0	2.1	2.9	3.8
Marital status not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Single	29.0	26.3	25.0	24.4	21.5	21.5	21.6	22.1	20.8	22.1
Married	62.0	65.5	67.6	68.4	71.7	71.6	71.5	70.9	71.2	70.2
Separated, divorced, widowed	9.0	8.2	7.4	7.3	6.9	6.8	6.9	7.0	8.0	7.7
Marital status not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Single	32.5	30.4	29.4	29.2	26.5	27.3	27.6	28.0	26.7	27.7
Married	61.5	64.2	65.7	65.9	69.0	68.2	67.9	67.3	67.7	66.4
Separated, divorced, widowed	5.9	5.4	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.6	5.6	5.8
Marital status not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gender not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Chart of Canada - Permanent Residents 15 Years of Age or Older by Marital Status (Showing Percentage Distribution)