Questão 48 - UFU 1 Fase 2025/2

Rate of marriages in China lowest since record keeping began in 1986, with cost of living and pushback against traditional gender roles contributing factors. Marriages in China plunged 20% to a record low in 2024 as young people resisted government efforts to convince them to settle down and have more babies. Marriages in China dropped from 7.7m in 2023 to 6.1m last year, data from China’s civil affairs ministry showed. The figure was less than half the number registered in 2013, and the lowest since record keeping began in 1986. The data also showed that 2.6 million couples filed for divorce in 2024, up 1.1% from the previous year. The sharp dive in nuptials was amplified by 2023’s brief rebound as people caught up on weddings after several years of Covid restrictions. There was also speculation that people had avoided getting married in 2024 because it was an inauspicious “widow year” in the Chinese lunar calendar. But the broader trend remained on track – stubbornly resisting the ruling Communist party’s push to reverse China’s demographic decline. “It’s not that people don’t want to get married, but that they can’t afford to get married!” said one Changzhou-based commenter on China’s social media platform Weibo, which has had more than 46 million engagements about the topic since Monday. China has the world’s second-largest population and for decades enforced tight restrictions on childbirth, including a one-child policy. But now, as China faces a decreasing and ageing population, which threatens the country’s economic future, the authoritarian government wants people to have more children.

Disponível em: https://www.theguardian.com/. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2025.

 

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