It costs an average of 627,000 yuan to raise a child, which is equivalent to the price of a mid-equipped Volkswagen Touareg.
Well-known economist Ren Zeping and many experts and scholars released a major report "China Reproductive Cost Report 2022 Edition".
report points out that the average cost of raising children aged 0-17 in families across the country is 485,000 yuan per person; the average cost of raising children aged 0 to undergraduate graduates is 627,000 yuan per person.
childbirth surgery, milk powder, toys, eating, drinking, defecation... A child is a " gold-swallowing beast " from birth, which consumes most of the expenses of ordinary families.
However, the real big expenditure is after the child goes to school, that is, the cost of education. The report pointed out incisively that the cost of nurturing accounts for a large part, and the cost of nurturing accounts for only a small part.
Primary and junior high schools belong to the compulsory education stage, and the tuition fee is free of charge. However, there are still many school uniforms, miscellaneous fees, meal fees, extracurricular learning tutoring fees, etc., and the average cost per child 24,072 yuan per year.
The high school stage is beyond the scope of compulsory education, and the average cost per child 26,072 yuan per year. At the university stage, the annual cost will reach 35,500 yuan.
report points out that there is a large gap in parenting costs in different regions and between urban and rural areas. Overall, the more developed the region, the higher the parenting costs. It costs about 1 million yuan to raise a child in first-tier cities, which is about the price of an Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan.
report also lists international comparisons of parenting costs, comparing the cost of raising a child to per capita GDP, Australia is 2.08 times, France is 2.24 times, the United States is 4.11 times, Japan is 4.26 times, and my country is 6.9 times, which is almost the highest in the world.
However, this is not the end of the story. After the child graduated from college, it costs money to find a job, and even more so if he couldn't find a job, it costs money to buy a house, and it costs money to get married. Many children are still reaching out to their parents before they get married... After they get married, they have to continue repeating the same story, with an infinite cycle of generation after generation.
In fact, the younger generation, especially women of appropriate age, has seen a significant decline in their willingness to give birth compared to the past.
In 2017, a national fertility sample survey conducted by the former National Health and Family Planning Commission showed that the top three reasons why women of childbearing age do not intend to have children are "heavy economic burden", "no one takes care of children" and "career development concerns", accounting for 77.4%, 45.6% and 33.2% respectively.
At the end of July this year, the magazine " Qiushi " published an article by the Party Group of the National Health Commission "Writing a New Chapter on Population Work in the New Era". The article points out that as the main fertility subjects, women born in the 1990s and 2000s, the average number of children planned to have is 1.54 and 1.48. A survey in 2017 showed that at that time, the average number of children women of childbearing age planned to have was 1.76.
Speaking of this, do you still have the courage to have a child? Are you planning to have a second or third child?
