CNN’s Simone McCarthy explains why couples have been delaying marriage in China and what might be behind the recent uptick.

Double-digit jump in registration rate, boosted by policy and cultural tradition, offers modest upturn, but demographers are ...

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 ...

New marriages in China crash to record low, while divorces on the rise Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government ...

China's marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 ...

The number of registered marriages in China fell 20.5 percent from the previous year to a record low of 6,106,000 in 2024, despite the government's efforts to encourage marriage and to promote ...

China last year – a 10.8 per cent rebound from 2024’s record low – but falling birth rates continue to cast a shadow on the world’s second-most populous nation.