The diagram shows the marriage percentage of both females and males aged 16 to 44 changed over a decade from 1998 to 2008. The past ten years witnessed an overall increase in getting married with males overpassing females over 30.
There were hardly any males getting married aged 16 to 19 both in 1998 and 2008, while only less than 1% of counterpart females chose to get married. Figures of people aged 20 to 24 have decreased in two genders, with female’s number declining 3% and male’s less than 1%.
At the ages between 25 and 29, the female’s percentage remained at the same level in 1998 and 2008, while the male’s has experienced a slight drop from almost 9% to 8%. People who were 30 to 34 years old in 2018, however, are more likely to get married than in 1998, with females increasing by 1% and males by 2%.
Data of the group aged 35 to 39 showed the possibility of both men and women getting married have increased, with the female seeing a minor 0.5% increase and male a 2%. The same trend has been maintained in the 40 to 44-year-old group compared with the former one, with the females experiencing a 0.5% increase and the males approximately 2%.
In conclusion, more women got married than men in groups aged 16 to 29 both in 1998 and 2008. On the contrary, the males who were between 30 and 44 years old were more likely to choose to get married than the females in these two different years.