Overview
- The new-adult cohort accounts for 0.89% of the population, a 0.01-point increase from last year.
- The 18-year-old group comprises roughly 560,000 males and 530,000 females.
- Only the 2024 cohort was smaller at 1.06 million in records that date back to 1968.
- People born in the Year of the Horse total 9.40 million, the fewest among the twelve zodiac groups.
- For historical comparison, the number of new adults peaked at 2.46 million in 1970 during the first postwar baby boom.