For most adult Frankfurters, the relationship status is: married.

At least that's what the statistics say for the year 2021. 45 percent of those older than 18 years old have a spouse.

But the numbers are changing, because in 1989 that was 53.5 percent.

The increase in singles is even more striking.

Their share rose from 29 to 41 percent in the same period.

On the other hand, last year there were only half as many widowed people as in 1989, they made up five instead of ten percent of the Frankfurters recorded in the population register.

Bernhard Biener

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung

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In the most recent report by the municipal statistics office, which City Councilor Eileen O'Sullivan (Volt) has now presented, the developments in marital status are also broken down by age group.

In 2021, the so-called Generation Y had the largest share of the population with 25.8 percent.

Behind this letter are the people who are between 26 and 40 years old today.

These "millennials", almost 195,000 in number, consciously experienced the turn of the millennium and the attacks of September 11, 2001.

In 2016, they replaced "Generation X" or "Generation Golf" as the largest segment of the population, which took second place with 22.9 percent.

For those born between 1965 and 1980, the end of the Cold War and reunification were formative events, and at the time you could only watch TV

95.4 percent single in "Generation Z"

The post-war generation born between 1946 and 1964 is referred to as “baby boomers”.

As with the following “Generation X”, most of them are married, just under 59 percent each.

At 8.2 percent, the baby boomers already have a significant proportion of widowers, which increases to 36.3 percent in the generation of parents born in 1945 and earlier.

Unsurprisingly, family relationships are reversed at the other end of the timeline: “Generation Z” born between 1996 and 2010, who use digital social media as a matter of course, is almost entirely available: 95.4 percent are single.

A historically temporary phenomenon as marital status is the registered civil partnership, which same-sex couples could enter into between 2001 and 2017.

The highest level was reached in 2016 with a total of 3351 civil partnerships.

Since October 2017, they are no longer newly established, but they can be converted into a marriage;

1536 are left until 2021.

Significantly more men than women took advantage of this opportunity.