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Biz News Korea(Eng)
Nearly 4 out of 10 Korean newly-weds are childless, more so with double-income couples
- Collected
- 2016.12.27
- Distributed
- 2016.12.28
- Source
- Go Direct
According to the data compiled by Statistics Korea, of 1.47 million couples that registered their marriages over the past five years as of November 1, 2015, 419,000, or 36 percent, were childless. Of them, 19.3 percent did not have children three to five years into married life.
About 40.7 percent of men tied the knot at the age of 30 to 34 and 40.2 percent of females at 25 to 29.
Among Korean couples married five years or less and both earning, 57.9 percent were with a child, compared with 70.1 percent ratio among the family with a single breadwinner. Average birth rate in double-income family on average was 0.72 versus 0.90 for a single-income household.
Housing also affected family building. Those with homes that had children accounted for 68.4 percent of the young couples, while the ratio was 61.5 percent for those without homes. The average birth for a couple owning homes was 0.88, whereas the number was 0.77 for those without.
A single-income family with more than two children took up 19.3 percent, while the number was 13.3 percent for double-income household.
By Boo Jang-won
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