The average marriage age in China has gradually increased over the years. In 2023, approximately **** percent of people who got married that year were between 20 and 24 years of age, considerably less than in 2005, when ** percent of newly married people belonged to that age group.

As of 2017, women in China were on average **** years old when entering their first marriage, almost three years older than in 2010. Resulting from increasing participation in higher education and labor work, women in China tend to delay their marriage.

In 2023, approximately *** million people aged between 25 and 29 years registered their marriage in China, accounting for more than one-third of the total number. In recent years, more Chinese prefer to delay their marriages. A decade ago, almost ** percent of the newlyweds were between 20 and 24 years old.

This statistic contains data on the estimated median age of Americans at their first wedding in the United States in 2021, by race and origin. In 2021, the median age for the first wedding among Asian women stood at 28.8 years.

When it comes to an age difference in a relationship, the Chinese society has become more open-minded. According to a survey on the dating culture in China conducted in 2019, around **** percent of the single male respondents stated that they could accept a romantic partner with an age difference of ten years. In the same survey, over half of respondents could tolerate an age difference between **** and ten years.

As of 2023, the divorce rate in China decreased to *** divorces per 1,000 inhabitants. Before 2020, this number had been constantly increasing since 2002. Divorce rate in Asian countries The divorce rate in China soared from around **** divorces per 1,000 people in 2000 to **** divorces in 2019. This is a quite high value compared to the divorce rate of countries in the Asia Pacific region. However, China shares the fate of a growing divorce rate with many other developing countries, while in most developed countries, the number of divorces per 1,000 inhabitants is either stable or falling. For example, the divorce rate in Singapore has been manly stable at *** divorces per 1,000 inhabitants in the last ten years and the divorce rate in South Korea has fallen from *** in 2009 to *** in 2023. In comparison, the U.S. divorce rate has been falling since 1992 from *** divorces per 1,000 people to *** divorces in 2022. Dating scene in China For the younger generations, dating and marriage happens (if at all) at a much later life stage compared to their parents. The fact that China has the highest working hours in the region does not ease the dire situation for singles in China, most of them being employed as professionals or employed in the media sector, where long working hours and high work pressure are quite common.

According to the 2020 UNIDOMO questionnaire, Portugal clearly led the list of European countries with the highest divorce rate per 100 marriages. With 91.5 divorces the Portuguese Republic led the list, followed by Spain and Luxembourg. All three countries boast a significantly higher share than the other European countries, each reporting a divorce rate over 80 divorces.

A different way to look at Portugal

While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European countries alters the picture of the country as one unsettled by significant numbers of divorces. With nearly 1.7 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants Portugal has roughly the same divorce rate as Germany and the Netherlands. Interesting is furthermore that although marriages in Portugal tend to result in divorce lightly more often as in Luxembourg (80.3%), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg experienced a 0.6 point higher divorce rate.

What about the rest of the World?

While compared with Latin American countries like Guatemala or Peru, ranked among the countries with the lowest divorce rates in the world, Luxembourg’s divorce rate seems excessive. However, when compared with divorce rates (per 1.000 inhabitants) of countries like the United States (2.7) or China (3.5) divorce rates from Luxembourg and Europe are not out of the ordinary.

As of 2005, people in the United States stated that they have had an average of 10.7 sexual partners, which is slightly above the global average of nine sexual partners.

Turkey in the lead?

Surveys on sensitive or very personal topics, like sexuality, are often to be taken with a grain of salt, but in this case, Turkey did not only lead the ranking in 2005, it also topped the one conducted in 2010 on the mean number of sexual partners. So is it likely that the Turkish people are sexually more prolific than everybody else? Another survey by another source suggests otherwise: It does not include Turkey when it comes to the countries with the most sexually active inhabitants but lists the Greek as the most active ones. In general, people tend to embellish their own activities, but also those of others – the disparity between the perceived and the actual number of times people have sex is staggering and similar everywhere around the world.

India the most monogamous?

Of those countries surveyed, Indian respondents report the lowest average number of sexual partners, only slightly surpassed by China. Both China and India struggle with a significant difference between the number of men and the number of women, and both countries largely adhere to conservative standards of sexuality that prohibit sex before marriage.

In 2023, there were just over *** million women living in New Zealand. This is an increase of around ** thousand women from the previous year. There has been a steady increase in the number of women living in New Zealand since 1991. Female population demographics In a pattern mirroring that of the overall female population growth in New Zealand, the number of indigenous women dwelling there has tremendously increased with the number of Māori women in New Zealand exceeding *** thousand residents in 2023. Women’s lifespans in New Zealand were expected to range between 79 and 90 years in 2023, with Chinese women figuring at the higher end of the spectrum and Māori women at the lower end. Work and family Over the past three decades, women in New Zealand have been opting to get married later in life with the average age of females at their first marriage being **** years in 2023. Child-bearing is another such life choice opted for later, with the highest birth rate being recorded among females aged 30 to 34 years old. Women accounted for a large share of the healthcare and social assistance industry, which had a workforce of over *** thousand female employees.