China stares at major population crisis as marriage rates hit record low in three decades | Details

China registered the lowest number of marriages, 7.64 million, in 2021, the lowest in nearly three decades, in what is the latest hurdle against efforts to boost the country’s rapidly falling birth rate as the government tries to stall a looming demographic crisis. Marriages are closely connected to births in China and the falling number, the lowest record of nuptials since 1986 when China began to make public the number, is likely to further impact government policy to boost birth rates. Watch this video for more.