On marriage trends in the EU

From the WSJ:

According to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency, the probability of marriage before age 50 has been plummeting for European women and men, while the chance of divorce for those who do marry has been soaring. In Belgium—the birth-land of the scholars who initially detected this Second Transition—the likelihood of a first marriage for a woman of reproductive age is now almost down to 40%, and the likelihood of divorce is over 50%. This means that in Belgium the odds of getting married and staying married are under one in five. A number of other European countries have similar or even lower odds.

It seems to be a bit of both the growth of single-person households - now accounting for 45% of households in Denmark (32% across the EU) - as well as the shift from a legal marriage to living common law.