Look at the registration data before listening to your elders: what the marriage rate and divorce rate actually measure
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In plain words
In 2024, 6,106,000 (610.6万) marriage registrations were made nationwide, 20% fewer than the year before, and 3,513,000 (351.3万) divorces. The claim online that more than half of marriages end in divorce comes from dividing one of these numbers by the other, which gives about 57.5%. But the people divorcing and the people marrying are not the same group, so it can't be read as half of marriages ending in divorce. The marriage rate of 4.3‰ and divorce rate of 2.5‰ in the statistical bulletin are calculated by dividing by the national population.
Translated from the Chinese original. Original book, section 10, tip 7. Content may be out of date and rules differ by place. When you actually deal with an agency, a doctor or a court, follow what local officials, doctors and lawyers tell you. Disclaimer