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Las Vegas recorded 136 licenses from China in 2025; the previous year brought 123. Year on year, the China count moved 10.6% higher.
Couples from China reached an annual high of 761 licenses in 2016, against a low of 47 in 2007.
In 2020, the China count fell 88.5% to 57, its annual percentage decline.
The China upward movement was from 73 in 2009 to 160 in 2010.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 47 |
| 2008 | 59 |
| 2009 | 73 |
| 2010 | 160 |
| 2011 | 234 |
| 2012 | 349 |
| 2013 | 593 |
| 2014 | 709 |
| 2015 | 703 |
| 2016 | 761 |
| 2017 | 658 |
| 2018 | 633 |
| 2019 | 497 |
| 2020 | 57 |
| 2021 | fewer than 10 |
| 2022 | withheld |
| 2023 | 65 |
| 2024 | 123 |
| 2025 | 136 |
First marriages for both partners numbered 265 in the China group, alongside 77 couples in which someone had married before. China's both-first-marriage share reached 77.5%, or 27.31 percentage points above the 50.2% across all couples.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 265 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 77 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
For China, October led the monthly totals at 61 licenses, accounting for 17.8% of the period. By comparison, April brought 13 licenses, the lowest published monthly total and 48 below October. September followed with 55 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 19 |
| February | 28 |
| March | 19 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 33 |
| June | 20 |
| July | 29 |
| August | 16 |
| September | 55 |
| October | 61 |
| November | 24 |
| December | 25 |
Compared with 10.33% across all origins, October contributed 17.84% of China licenses, putting its share 7.51 percentage points above the countywide figure. The third monthly position for China went to May, contributing 33 licenses behind October and September. The leading months, October, September and May, together accounted for 149 China licenses, representing 43.6% of the 342 recent count; those same months accounted for 28.8% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
In the China age counts, 199 partners fell in the leading 30-34 band. Following that band, China had 173 partners aged 35-39. Compared with 19.3% across all origins, China recorded 29.1% of partners in its 30-34 age band, a share above the countywide figure. Further down the China age distribution, 25-29 accounted for 110 people and 40-44 for 99, giving those bands the third and fourth positions by published count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 20-24 | fewer than 10 |
| 25-29 | 110 |
| 30-34 | 199 |
| 35-39 | 173 |
| 40-44 | 99 |
| 45-49 | 43 |
| 50-54 | 26 |
| 55-59 | 15 |
| 60-64 | fewer than 10 |
| 65-69 | fewer than 10 |
| 70-74 | fewer than 10 |
The neighboring origin in the recent overseas list is Czechia with 297 licenses, compared with 342 from China. China held the 14th latest-year place across recognized overseas labels and the 19th recent-count place among the overseas pages published here. Spread over the recent file years, China's 342 licenses average 68.4 a year across 2021 to 2025, including 2022 only through 22 December.
Following China through the annual record gives 47 in 2007, 497 in 2019, 57 in 2020, 65 in 2023. By 2025, China's count stood 72.6% below its 2019 level. The recent China total was 342 licenses, a 0.09% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. China's share in 2025 was 0.19% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, China accounted for 0.04% of Las Vegas licenses: 47 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from China can prepare with the marriage license guide: the fee is $102, and both partners collect the license with their identification. For paperwork to take back to China, use the certified-copy guide for the ordering steps after recording; the officiant must file within 10 days after the ceremony, and a certified certificate is $20 per copy.