In Germany, a total of 65,600 same-sex marriages have been concluded since marriage for everyone was introduced in 2017.
By the end of 2021, there were a good 32,300 marriages between men and almost 33,300 between women, as the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced on Tuesday.
Previously, same-sex couples could only register one civil partnership.
Some of these registered partnerships were converted into marriages after 2017.
Without these converted partnerships, the statistics office counted a total of 36,800 same-sex marriages by the end of 2021.
Recently, however, the number of all same-sex weddings has decreased significantly: In the whole of 2021, 8,700 marriages were concluded between two people of the same sex.
That is 12.4 percent less than in the previous year.
Women marry more often
Excluding conversions of registered civil partnerships, almost 7,800 same-sex marriages were registered in 2021.
The decline was thus more pronounced than in marriages between men and women, the number of which fell by only 3.9 percent within a year.
Same-sex marriages are more often between women than men in this country: according to the statistics office, the proportion of marriages between women last year was 53 percent.
The proportion of women has increased over the years.
In the year when marriage was introduced for all, women who said yes to each other accounted for 45 percent.