Getting married in your 30s is the new normal

Since the 1970s there’s been a clear trend in the UK for rising age at first marriage—which excludes people who were previously married and have divorced or lost a spouse—according to data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (which has data back to the mid-19th century.) The average age for single men to marry passed 30 in 1999. The ONS noted that in heterosexual unions, the age at first marriage in 2016 for men was 33.4 and for women was 31.5, part of a trend of rising age since the 1970s. The UK numbers reflect a growing trend in wealthy Western countries towards getting hitched later.