Registrations of married couples in China in 2021 dropped below 8 million for the first time since 2003, and nearly half of them were aged 30 or above, latest data showed.
With the number of people at prime marriage age declining in recent years and late marriage trending in China, having fewer married couples is a normal phenomenon and within expectations, demographers said, noting that China is still a universal marriage society as the average age of first marriage in the country is much earlier than that in many developed countries.
The average cost of raising a child until the age of 18 was 485,000 yuan ($76,556) in China in 2019, which was 6.9 times China s GDP per capita, much higher than many countries including the US, France, Germany and Japan, according to a new report released on Tuesday.
BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) New mothers can have an additional maternity leave ranging from 30 days to 90 days in general in 25 Chinese provincial-level region
China s declining birthrate in recent years has been driven by a decreasing number of women of childbearing age, changes in young people s attitudes toward marriage and fertility, and rising child care costs.