# Financial pressures, especially youth unemployment and job insecurity, are pushing up divorce rates in poorer Chinese regions. According to Reuters, demographer Yi Fuxian warns that the 2024 divorce rate is projected at 2.6 per one-thousand up from 2.0 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yi says this is notably higher than Japan’s 1.5 and South Korea’s 1.8. Yi says poverty destroys marriages, linking rising divorces to falling birth rates and China’s worsening demographic crisis.
Financial strain driving higher divorce rates in China’s low‑income regions