China's Civil Ministry released the data on Monday. The number of marriage applications fell from 7.68 million in 2023 to just 6.1 million in 2024.
Birth rate in China (compared to total population) fine It was a little bit in 2024, according to data released in January by the government's National Statistics Bureau. The increase in births was a small hopeful indication, but demographic experts warned it was probably temporary. The product of a marriage delayed by China's brutal coronavirus lockdown has become a fruitful and rare enthusiasm for having a baby in the year of the Dragon, and is considered the most favorable year. In the Chinese zodiac for birth.
Even with the birth bump last year, China's overall population still declined as deaths counted births. Monday data from the Ministry of Citizens Showed Marriage fell off the cliff, and divorce increased slightly by 1%. This ensures that birth rates will plummet again after the dragon year, as births from unmarried people are relatively rare in China.
Last year, the number of marriages was the lowest total Posted Less than half of the countries reported in 2013 by China since 1980. Even if the births were slightly bumped, 2024 has seen fewer children born since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
“Unprecedented! Even in 2020, marriages only fell 12.2% due to Covid-19.” I cried out When data from the Department of Civil Affairs, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was released.
Yi predicted that the “political and economic ambitions” of the Chinese Communist government will be “smashed down by the demographic Achilles Heal.” The decline in marriage and childbirth is wreaking havoc on economic plans that assume the younger worker population will continue to grow for years to come.
China's demographic crisis has been greatly exacerbated by it Brutal “One Child” Policy Of the forced abortions, between the 1970s and 2015, the removal of a huge number of young women from the marriage pool, and the policy was eventually rescinded. Many parents felt that if they had only one child, they would have a boy.
Demographics also believe that China is struggling with a very rapid pace of urbanization during the boom period that began in the 1980s and became sputtering in the 2010s. As the Chinese economy was roaring, countless young people decided to move from rural to larger cities, seeking lucrative high-tech jobs. Birth rates are much lower in Chinese cities, especially as career-oriented women are reluctant to put off their professional lives to raise their children.
The booming collapse of China's economy has had another downward impact on birth rates: rising unemployment among young people. The unemployment rate is Hovering Approximately 17% of Chinese people under the age of 24 undermines the confidence of the most fertile age cohort. The rarity of good work means that young people are reluctant to make marriage commitments or take on a major financial burden on their children. There are many young Chinese people return It becomes difficult for them to build their own home or family in a home where they live with their parents.
Chinese Social Media Buzz Many commentators have denounced the mix of instant self-absorption that has captivated Ennui and young people on Monday.
“Life is already very tired. Who is the courage to marry?” asked one user on Weibo, a severely tested version of X, in China.
