China is quickly becoming a country of bachelors and spinsters as its unmarried population touched a whopping 200 million last year with a new survey pointing out that over 36 per cent of single women prefer to stay unwed. While media outlets and government bodies are worried about the consequences caused by the so-called wave of singledom, demographers believe the trend will only grow in the future, state-run People’s Daily reported on Tuesday.
Among the 200 million unmarried men and women in China, over 58 million are living on their own. The unmarried popu-lation in China skyrocketed from six per cent in 1990 to 14.6 per cent of the population in 2013.