Penza, 31 July 2017. PenzaNews. 3,088 marriages were registered in the Penza region from January to June 2017. This is testified by operational data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).

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According to Rosstat, 2,909 families, that is 179 less than in 2017, were created during an analogous period of the previous year.

At the same time, in the first half of the year 2017, 2,492 divorces were registered, that is 600 less than the number of marriages.

The number of divorces as well as marriages increased compared to an analogous period of the previous year – at that time their number equalled to 2,395.

As it was reported earlier, 5,884 babies were born and 9,906 people died in the Penza region from January to June 2017. Natural population decline equalled to 4,022 people.