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Reporter Kwon Ae-ri's friendly economic time.
Reporter Kwon, There are so many policies that focus on newlyweds these days as well as marriage and fertility.
<Reporter>
Yes, this is the data that the National Statistical Office started to write in 2016 as interest in newlyweds grew.
In these statistics, people who have been married for less than 5 years as of November 1 each year are considered newlyweds.
The recent policies that benefit newlyweds have changed to include couples who have been married for 7 years, but rather shorter newlyweds.
This year's statistics are based on last year, and the marriage rate that has decreased further due to the coronavirus this year is not reflected, but you can still find out the lives of newlyweds recently. First, there are 1.26 million newlyweds nationwide until the fifth year of marriage. .
That's 62,000 pairs less than in 2018.
This is the difference between the sixth year of marriage getting out of this statistic and the new entry of those who were married last year.
In other words, it reflects the trend of getting fewer marriages.
However, there is an area where the number of newlyweds increased only last year.
This is Sejong City.
This is a refreshing number that shows that more young people with relatively stable jobs gather and marry more often.
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This material focuses on first-married couples among newlyweds, right?
There must be many newlyweds who remarried these days.
<Reporter>
Yes, at least 1 in 5 newlyweds is a remarried couple.
Although it occupies a large proportion, this data focuses on the phenomenon of delayed marriage and fewer newborns, so the detailed analysis focused on the first marriage.
To summarize the situation of first-married newlyweds in one word, even if they get married, they have fewer and fewer children, the proportion of having their own home is decreasing, and double-income is increasing.
Putting it upside down, if you don't have your own home and can't keep up with dual income, you will have fewer children.
It's not a new story.
The main reasons that we have repeatedly cited as the reason for the number of children in Korea are the results at once.
First of all, the more likely a couple had their own home, the more likely they were to have children.
Each couple has 0.79 children.
Still, 4 out of 5 pairs are considered to have had 1 child at a time.
On the other hand, couples without their own home had an average of only 0.65 children per couple.
The difference is pretty big.
It can be seen that housing security has a huge impact on the decision to have children.
But there are other indicators that just make this situation unacceptable, and the more economically prosperous you are, the more you have children.
By income category, newlyweds who earn more money have fewer children. As you can see in the table now, more than half of couples with no children until the fifth year of marriage in a house with an income of 100 million won or more.
You can see that the higher the income, the greater the probability of having no children.
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Two-income couples will probably have a higher income than single-income couples and they will have fewer children.
<Reporter>
Yes, it is very likely.
Here, the double-income, the less children, and that is reflected.
However, among the double-income, the higher the income, the more abandon the child. This point can be seen as evidence of experts' point that the birth will increase only if a couple can give birth and child-rearing at the same time.
It means that the higher the income, the better the job, the greater the burden of returning to single-income and the burden of disconnecting from a career, the higher the proportion of double-income in the first year of marriage.
The proportion decreases in years 2 and 3, and then sticks to that state in years 4 and 5.
From the fourth year, single-earning more than double-earning.
Newlyweds who give birth are usually between the first and third years.
Therefore, it is natural in a way that double-income decreases at this time, but there are some people who cannot return to work even after raising children.
On the flip side, it can be seen that there are many newlyweds who decide that it is not possible to earn only one person for a while, or that they choose dual income without having children when they feel that they cannot return to work after having a child.
In particular, the fact that there are fewer children with higher incomes is an economic problem, but it reflects the fear of career breaks.
When returning after having a child, it is okay to have a job that is worse than before. The higher the income, the less there are.
And this trend is getting more pronounced as the years go by.
It can be said that it is a result that reveals the core of the low birth rate problem in Korea that our society has continuously grasped.