China and South Korea both experienced their first increase in marriages in a decade.
or the first time in about a decade, the number of marriages in South Korea last year increased from the previous year, according to data revealed by the country’sThe upticks were slight: in South Korea, 193,657 couples wedded in 2023, a 1% increase from 2022 and the first increase since 2011; while in China, 7.68 million couples tied the knot by late 2023, up about 847,000 from late 2022, and the first increase since 2013.
The governments of South Korea and China, as well as of neighboring countries facing similar demographic issues such as Japan, have been trying to encourage marriages in a bid to lift birth rates and counter the effects of a rapidly aging population. Last year, for newlywed heterosexual couples if the bride was under 25, in a bid to promote"age-appropriate marriage and childbearing.” In South Korea, which has theChina Is Desperate to Boost Its Low Birth Rates.
Demographers have long attributed the decline of marriage to the lack of appeal of the associated costs surrounding marriage. “It's not just a rejection of marriage. It's not that people don’t want to get married at all,” says Gietel-Basten, “but it’s a rejection of what we call that marriage package.” That includes, he says, social expectations around caring for in-laws, the freedom and autonomy women are expected to give up, and the high costs of child-rearing.
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