The U.S. Census Bureau reports that in 2024, less than half of American households have included a married couple with only 47.1% married.

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The historical reasons to get married — finances, property and kids, to name a few — are less relevant today. Why do so many ...

Figures recently released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs show that about 6.1 million marriages were registered in 2024, ...

But it remains unclear how directing more transportation funding to areas with higher birth and marriage rates would reverse the trend. “It’s hard to know what sort of transportation policy ...

China is offering cash rewards and subsidies to encourage marriage and increase birth rates amid a continuing demographic ...

Numbers of marriages in China dropped dramatically in 2024. The continuing decline in marriages likely signals further ...

Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the country’s demographic crisis and highlighting the public’s changing attitudes towards marriage, childbirth, family planning, and ...

then increased that to three children in 2021 – but both marriage and birth rates continued to drop. The stubborn downward trend is also a result of changing attitudes to marriage, especially ...