This graphic is ridiculous American revanchism, it shouldn't be spread.
China demographics thread.
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China's marriage registrations fall in Q1; annual figures may continue to decline: expert
That's a lot of foreign waifus needed, China needs to open up a policy to solve this problem. To give an idea of the scope of the problem, it would require almost 2% of the world's female population from age 20-40 to come to China to correct this imbalance.
I'm thinking a more radical policy is needed, what about something like foreign wives with Chinese husbands that give birth in China can super fast track Chinese citizenship?
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Yikes, a 8.5% decline. This is devastating news, especially since marriages rose in 2023 and that was a glimmer of hope that things might have stabilized.
That said, I'm not sure the guys analysis of the reasons is correct. The gender imbalance has been a problem for decades, but the number of young marriageable women hasn't dropped by 50% since 2013. The real problem is cultural changes in society where women who could get married aren't getting married. There needs to be a greater effort to promote family values.
Even if all the Chinese women who can get married choose to get married, there is still more than 17 million lonely marriage age men. This problem is a totally separate problem.
It's far too late for that, and while 17.52 million sounds like a large number, at a percentage level it is far less than the historical discrepancy between the genders on reproductive success - that is to say, more than 60% of men historically never reproduced vs. 40% of women. It is not expected for every man to find a woman and energy is better spent on the "single by choice" crowd, which makes up a larger and larger % of Chinese men and women, than to try and find a spouse for everyone.
Yeah I agree it's also a problem, it's just not the main reason for the huge decline in marriages.
I know that 17.52 million is a large number, but in a country as large as China, this problem would be alleviated if the average man married a younger woman. I don't remember the exact number, but someone on here worked out that if the average Chinese man married a woman roughly two years younger than him, the gender imbalance would no longer be a problem. The issue is largely cultural.
That solution clearly doesn't work since it assumes a stable population pyramid which is clearly false as there is already less and less children being born in China.
I didn't know we are comparing quality of life to ancient times, shall we compare historical poverty levels, hunger levels, infant mortality rates too?
You clearly didn't read the article.
Since you can't fix the number of young people in China, the next best thing you can fix is the unbalanced sex ratio.
The fact is there is no fixing it and it isn’t as big of a deal as it seems from the raw numbers. No generation in history or contemporary times ever had any where close to 100% of men paired up with women. The reality is these are mostly going to be poor rural men with no chance at all of getting a foreign wife - unless sex trafficked - and China is not going to be able to import women who want to marry them.
It’s a problem created by the one child policy & there’s no going back to change that. What should’ve happened was the Chinese leadership should not have listened to a rocket engineer influenced by Western Malthusian agents but what are you going to do now?
It’s a problem created by the one child policy & there’s no going back to change that. What should’ve happened was the Chinese leadership should not have listened to a rocket engineer influenced by Western Malthusian agents but what are you going to do now?