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Last year, the number of marriages fell below 200,000, the lowest since statistics were compiled.
The number of divorces has also decreased, but the only divorce among the elderly, the so-called twilight divorce, has increased significantly.
Reporter Han Sang-woo points out the data related to marriage and divorce last year released by the National Statistical Office.
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Last year, the number of married couples was 193,000.
It is the first time in history that marriages have fallen below 200,000.
21,000 cases, a 10% decrease from a year ago, and a 20% decrease compared to 2019, before the corona virus.
As the number of people in their 30s, the age of marriage, has decreased, marriage has been on the decline.
As the number of marriages has decreased, so has the number of divorces.
The number of cases decreased by nearly 5% to 102,000
, but newlyweds who had been married for less than 4 years divorced the most.
And the divorce rate decreased in all cases for 10, 20, and 30 years of marriage, but only those who had lived together for more than 30 years increased.
The so-called twilight divorces increased by 20% in two years, from 15,000 in 2019 to 16,600 in 2020 and 17,900 last year.
As the number of divorces at dusk increased, the average age of divorced people was 50.1 years old for men and 46.8 years old for women.
Statistics Korea analyzed that as the aging population increases and life expectancy increases, more and more couples are living freely through divorce for the rest of their lives.