The percentage of new adults who want to get married in the future reached 83.8%, the highest in the past 16 years, according to a new adult awareness survey by Rakuten O-net (President, Manabu Moriya, Tokyo), a marriage partner introduction service. ..The percentage of new adults who want to get married has bottomed out at 2016% in 74.3 and continues to recover in a V shape.

　The survey was conducted on the Internet from November to December 600, targeting 300 new adults (2017 men and women each) nationwide.According to the report, 11% answered that they would like to get married early, and 12% said that they would like to get married eventually.On the other hand, only 27.8% answered "I don't intend to get married" and 56.0% answered "I don't want to get married if possible".

　結婚したいと答えた新成人の数は、1990年代から2001年まで90％近くに達していたが、社会的格差の広がりや非正規雇用の拡大が見られた2002年以降は80％前後に低下、2015年に76.5％、2016年に最低の74.3％を記録していた。しかし、2017年は79.0％に戻り、V字回復の兆しも示していた。

　The top reasons for wanting to get married are "I want to be with someone I like" (55.3%), "I want children" (54.5%), and "I think I'm happy to have a family" (46.9%).

　The age of wanting to get married was 25 years old, accounting for 21.1%.This was followed by 26, 27, and 28 years old, and it was found that more than 6% of both men and women are thinking of getting married in their late 20s.Regarding children, 68.8% answered that they wanted it, and there was no significant change from 69.7% in the previous year.

　In addition, the percentage of men and women who answered that they had "dating" was 62.0%, an increase of 59.0% from 3.0% in the previous year, and an increase of about 2% from 57.2% two years ago.
“There are people of the opposite sex who are currently dating” was 31.5% overall, an increase of 30.7% from 0.8% last year.The first place for getting to know a dating partner is "on campus (university / vocational school)" for both men and women, the second place is "junior high school / high school classmates" for women, "part-time job" for women, and "SNS" for third place. I ranked in. SNS was ranked 1th for females and 2th for males in the previous year's survey.

reference:[O-net, Inc.] The 23rd 2018 New Adult Love / Marriage Awareness Survey (PDF)