Love and Marriage.
Uh-oh.
Newsweek states that
According to the research, a woman who remained single at 30 had only a 20 percent chance of ever marrying. By 35, the probability dropped to 5 percent. (Old Stats)Okay, now I'm gonna look at some birth rates. I recently read that Japan is losing its population as well as some European countries. Japan's decline in children has even coined a new word, 'shoshika', meaning a society without children. Japan's birth rate is 9.37 births/1,000 population (2006 est.). The US has a birth rate of 13.9 per 1,000 persons in 2002. I don't understand the numbers. How does this translate into a dwindling Japanese population? The article I read quote a 1.37-ish birth rate. That number I understand. I'm missing something.
The median age for a first marriage—25 for women, 27 for men—is higher than ever before.
When the Census last crunched the numbers in 1996, a single woman at 40 had a 40.8 percent chance of eventually marrying.
posted by Sonygee @ 6/03/2006 12:10:00 PM
3 Comments:
There is still hope for all of us.
This gave me hope :)
There's an even better number that I found later on. It's something like female college graduates >30 are x number of times more likely to marry than their non-grads counterparts.
Even more hope...
Introducing Dr and Mr Sonia Gonzalez- ha! Drs outrank the non-doctors! No if a Dr marries a Dr, I gues that's different.
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