China: half as many marriages as in 2013
13.5M marriages in 2013, 6.77M in 2025. The low was 6.11M in 2024, slightly more since.
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The number of marriages registered in a year. There are fewer when people marry later or not at all, and when there are fewer young adults.
The line is marriages per year; the dot is the peak.
- Marriages thousand marriages a year
13,469 (2013) → 6,765 (2025)
national: MCA statistical bulletin 2013: 结婚登记 1346.9 万对 (published in units of 10,000 couples, one decimal); mainland only; read from Internet Archive copy https://web.archive.org/web/20180511054631id_/http://www.mca.gov.cn/article/sj/tjgb/201406/201406156561679.shtml → national: MCA statistical bulletin 2025: 结婚登记 676.5 万对 (published in units of 10,000 couples, one decimal); mainland only
Marriages: UNdata and national statistics. Selection: countries of at least 10 million where marriages fell by 40% or more since 1990, within 20 years of the peak, with data up to 2023 or later; the four most notable.
Marriages and births falling together does not show that one caused the other: both depend on the age structure, housing, incomes and attitudes.
A question for this picture
Are people postponing marriage or giving it up altogether?