Of the 20,775 marriages involving at least one citizen, 8,086 Singaporeans were hitched to non-citizen spouses. Of the 8,086 people, 6,200 were men and 1,886 were women. There were 8,406 and 8,161 such marriages in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Close to 90 per cent of these non-citizen spouses last year were from Asia. These figures were released recently by the National Population Secretariat but the real figure may be even higher as some Singaporeans marry their partners and register their marriages overseas.