Marriage and Online Dating: Don't Confuse the Numbers

The claim that one in five new dating-site registrants is already married is not supported by the representative data located. It likely conflates different measures: a 2006 Pew survey reported that 23% of U.S. adults who had ever used online dating were married or living as married at the time of the survey. That is not the share of married people among new registrants, nor a worldwide estimate. In Pew's 2022 survey, only 3% of married adults who had ever used a dating platform said they were currently using one.