By Diana Othman

WHILE more couples tied the knot last year, many Singaporeans are not marrying or marrying later in life.

In an update on the population trends in 2008, the National Population Secretariat (NPS) said there were 21,042 marriages involving at least one Singapore citizen last year, compared to 20,775 nuptials in 2007.

But the marriage rates for Singaporean men over the last decade fell from 47.9 married men per 1,000 unmarried men in 1998 to 42.1 last year.

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