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China on track to record its lowest number of new marriages, official data shows
Between 2008 and 2018, over 10 million couples married each year in China. Especially between 2011 and 2014, the number of registered marriages exceeded 13 million. However, the number has been consistently declining since 2013 from a record 13.47 million marriages in 2014 to 7.5 million, a four-year average between 2020 and 2023 during and after the pandemic. This year, there were only 4.74 million couples registered for marriage during the first nine months, which is on track to mark the lowest number of marriages for the year. The declining marriages clearly represent the impact of the one-child policy between 1980 and 2016 to curb the fast-growing population. Also, the trend seems to reflect the changing attitude toward marriage especially among women who are more educated and financially independent than their former generations. The same trend is seen in South Korea and Japan, whose birthrate, the number of marriages, and population have been sharply declining. What is common among these three East Asia countries are high education costs, patriarchal traditions, and still-existing inequality in job positions. The value and joy of forming a family might need to be reemphasized or redefined to the younger generation to change the downward trend.
Read the article and learn about China’s declining marriages.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/04/china/china-marriages-on-track-low-intl-hnk/index.html
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