China's Marriage Rate Hits 40-Year Low, Deepening Population Challenges
- China's marriage registrations fell to 6.1 million in 2024, a 20.5% drop from the previous year, marking the lowest since 1986, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
- Nearly 2.6 million couples registered for divorce in 2024, an increase of 28,000 from 2023, as reported by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs.
- Chinese officials have implemented various measures to encourage marriage and childbirth, yet young adults continue to delay or avoid these commitments due to economic pressures and changing attitudes.
- Despite a slight rise in births in 2024, China's population has declined for three consecutive years, highlighting ongoing demographic challenges, according to Yi Fuxian, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The threat to China's Communist Party – fewer and fewer people are getting married
BEIJING. Universities are holding courses on love. Chinese cities are organizing blind dates and mass weddings. But nothing is helping: the number of Chinese people getting married is at an all-time low. The development threatens the Communist Party's goal of making China the most powerful country in the world.
China's population woes deepen as marriage registrations plummet to lowest level since 1980
China recorded its lowest number of new marriages for four decades in 2024, in a sign that the country's challenges with a declining birth rate and shrinking population are likely to deepen this year.
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