Births outside of marriage account for approximately 40 percent of total births in the United States

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Marriage rates fell by approximately 50 percent in China and South Korea between the early 2010s and early 2020s

China instituted nationwide demographic initiatives encouraging later marriage and fewer children during the 1970s

China formally implemented the nationwide coercive one-child policy in the 1980s

The Vice President of the China Family Planning Association publicly advocated in 2023 for Chinese citizens to date, marry, and reproduce according to designated age stages

Chinese women had an average fertility rate of roughly six children per woman during the 1960s

Births outside of marriage account for approximately 70 percent of total births in Iceland

Births outside of marriage account for between one and four percent of all births in East Asia

The Chinese government introduced pronatalist measures in 2021, including kindergarten construction, expanded parental leave, and cash birth bonuses

The Chinese government replaced the one-child policy with a nationwide two-child policy in 2016

Taiwan recorded a fertility rate of approximately 0.7 children per woman in the early 2020s

Japan recorded a fertility rate of approximately 1.1 children per woman in the early 2020s

Single-person households in South Korea increased from 9 percent of all households in 1990 to 40 percent of all households in the early 2020s

The United States fertility rate was approximately 1.68 children per woman as of the early 2020s

South Korea recorded a fertility rate of approximately 0.8 children per woman in the early 2020s

Single-person households accounted for approximately 23 percent of all households in the United States in 1990

Between 2014 and 2024, enrollment in Philadelphia public schools decreased by 10 percent

Between 2014 and 2024, enrollment in Dallas public schools decreased by 13 percent

Between 2014 and 2024, enrollment in Los Angeles public schools decreased by 20 percent

Between 2014 and 2024, enrollment in Chicago public schools decreased by 17 percent

Between 2014 and 2024, enrollment in Houston public schools decreased by approximately 17 percent