著者

山田 昌弘

出版者

中央大学社会科学研究所

雑誌

中央大社会科学研究所年報 (ISSN:13432125)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.15-30, 2022-09-01

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Nowadays, the number of middle-aged singles (people who have no spauses) has been increasing in Japan. According to the census of 2020, the number of single people of 50’s was over 5 million. The main reasons are the increases of unmarried rate and divorce rate. I conducted an internet survey and intervew surveys of the middle age single people to reserch about their life situations and anxiety in future. Acording to the survey, many middle age singles feel solitude, and most of them will face risks of pevety and isolation. Over half of Unmarried men living alone have noone talking with. The annual income of about half of women living with their parents is under 2 milion yen, so they depends on their parents’s income.And 75% of middle age singles feel they will die without anybody present.