Number of marriages
World Map of the Family 2013 , placed Colombia as the country with the highest percentage of couples living together without being married and is also the nation with the lowest number of marriages in Latin America, a region where the average marriage is 50 percent.
According to Camilo Herrera , president of Raddar , the low number of couples who choose to marry in Colombia has much to do with economic impact generated to link in a legal form. The costs involved in the formalization of the relationship made the couple think if is convenient or not to invest a considerable sum of money on it.
Additionally , this decision , as well as modifying the formation of families in the country, also has a negative impact on the national economy , because some studies shows how an established family is a consume stably and It increase the economy and contribute to the growth of the country.
in 2014 the superintendent of Notaries and Registration , Jorge Enrique Velez, revealed statistics that measure the performance of marriages during the year 2014. The official said that from January to November 2014, civil marriages in Colombia they increased by 1.77 %, compared to 2o13.
In notaries of Bogota, 10,300 civil marriages were registered and although Bogota is the city where more civil marriages are logged , this event had a negative variation leaving register 151 acts. The capital fell by 2.30% the number of marriges held by notaries.
During 2014 , the bonds between same-sex couples with the same period of 2013, up 7.3 percent. While in 2013 152 unions were held in 2014 were presented 164.
in 2015, civil marriages increased reaching a total of 24,206 , an increase of 1.36 percent compared with the same period last year , when there were 23,881 .
For civil marriages , the highest percentages are in the Central region , with 36.59 percent , representing 9,856 of unions reported , and the Caribbean area with 5,353 unions.
The cities that reported a major number of civil weddings were Bogotá, with 3,839 ; 1,591 Medellin and Cali 1,522 . These three account for 28.72 percent of the country's civil marriages .
In the first quarter of 2015 the marital unions between same-sex couples increased in a 39.5 percent relative to the same period of 2014 . 58.5 percent of the unions reported were male and 41.5 percent female .