The proportion of men and women in Hong Kong is further unbalanced compared to 5 years ago, and "more women and less men" affect the marriage status of Hong Kong people

[Global Times special reporter Yang Weimin in Hong Kong] In the Mainland, we often say "more men and women", but in Hong Kong, the situation is exactly the opposite.

According to the Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily Network reported on the 28th, the Statistics Department of the SAR Government published the "Hong Kong Women and Male -Main Statistics (2022 Edition)" on the same day, and listed the main statistics of the publication and divided by gender on the Internet. The proportion of men and women in Hong Kong is further unbalanced from 5 years ago. In 2021, Hong Kong's 4.0308 million women and 3.383 million men were in Hong Kong. In the case of excluding foreign domestic helpers, only 910 men per 1,000 women were performed. Compared with 925 men per 1,000 women in 2016, the gap was further expanded. In addition, the number of men and women in Hong Kong in 2021 was 1.9231 million and 19.473 million, respectively. For the first time, the female labor population exceeded men.

The cause of this situation is that women's life span is generally longer than men. In 1986, the average life expectancy of women in Hong Kong was 79.4 years old, men were 74.1 years old, and Hong Kong men and women had a life expectancy of 87.6 and 85.2 years in 2020. The second major reason is the migration of the population. The analysis believes that a large number of women with one -way certificate come to Hong Kong, which has changed the gender proportion of Hong Kong. Professor Ye Zhaohui of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of the University of Hong Kong has written that if no immigration enters or removes, according to the natural proportion of gender when born in Hong Kong, there should be more men than women before the age of 60.

The imbalance between men and women has an impact on the marriage status of Hong Kong people. In 2020, Hong Kong never married 27.8%, and about 1.12 million women in Hong Kong were unmarried; and 32.3%of men who had never been married, the number of unmarried men in Hong Kong was about 1.1 million, and the difference between the two was 20,000. This has made the proportion of Hong Kong women's marriage with Mainland men has continued to rise in recent years. In the 1980s, about every 20 cross -border marriage, only one pair of Hong Kong women married mainland men; in 1997, Hong Kong women married mainland men's proportion Still less than 10%. However, in 2007, the proportion has risen to one pair every 5 pairs. The proportion of 2016 has increased significantly to 1/3. 30%of the cross -border marriage was married to men in the Mainland.

Of course, the fundamental reason for the "Hong Kong Women Marry" is that they have confidence in the prospects of the Mainland. The founder of a marriage and love event company analyzed that on the one hand, there are more Hong Kong women to work in the Mainland to increase the opportunity to meet men in the Mainland. On the other hand The trend may continue in the future.

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