Posted : 2021-05-30 14:06
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The portion of single-member households in South Korea surpassed 30 percent of the total last year, a government survey showed Sunday, amid an increase in diverse forms of families.
One-person families accounted for 30.4 percent of the total in 2020, according to a survey conducted on 11,000 households by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family every five years.
The percentage was 21.3 percent in 2015 and 15.8 percent in 2010.
At the same time, the proportion of households composed of parents and unmarried children fell to 31.7 percent in the 2020 research from 44.2 percent in 2015 and 48.4 percent in 2010.
The average number of members in a family reached 2.3, down sharply from 2.8 tallied five years ago. In 2010, a family consisted of 2.9 members on average.
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