Seoul citizens are marrying later in life, and young women residing in the capital city have fewer babies than their older counterparts, data showed Thursday.
According to the data compiled by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, only 6.3 percent of citizens aged 15 to 29 tied the knot as of 2010.
Of those aged 30 to 44, 30.6 percent remained single, while the unmarried rate among those aged 45 to 59 and over 60 years old turned out to be 4.5 percent and 1 percent, respectively, the data showed.
The average age of first marriages rose by more than two years from a decade ago.
Men married for the first time at an average age of 32.16 in 2010, while women got married at an age of 29.8. The figures were both up more than 2.5 from the year 2000.
Compared to the national average, Seoul's male and female citizens got married 0.4 and 0.9 years later, respectively, in 2010, the data showed.
Female Seoul citizens in their 30s and 40s have an average of 1.6 babies as of 2010, nearly half the number of 3.1 babies for those aged 60 or older, according to the data.
Some 52.1 percent of the women aged 30-44 have two babies, followed by 32.8 percent having one child, while 33.2 percent of the women older than 60 years old, or the largest share, have four babies, followed by 29.4 percent with three kids, and 27.3 percent with two.
Seoul women aged 45-59 have an average of two babies.
The average is broken down to 64.9 percent having two, followed by 16.7 percent with one child and 14 percent having three babies, the data showed.