China is a country of bachelors and spinsters - marriage is not for the young ones

China is being transformed into a country of bachelors and spinsters - marriage is not in the agenda of the young ones.
Its unmarried population has touched a whopping 200 million last year with a new survey pointing out that over 36 per cent of single women prefer to stay unwed.
This has been reported in deccanherald.com dated 13 December 2016.

This has got media outlets and government bodies worried. The consequences of this so-called wave of singledom is, in the opinion of demographers, a trend that will only grow in the future. Among the 200 million unmarried men and women in China, over 58 million are living on their own.
Incidentally, the unmarried population in China has skyrocketed from six per cent in 1990 to 14.6 per cent of the population in 2013. Demographers believe that the independence of modern Chinese women is one of the main causes of the growing unmarried population. As per a recent research of 2016, 36.8 per cent of single Chinese women feel that marriage is not necessary to live happy lives.


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