联合国卫生组织的2005年度调查:在近10年的时间里,全世界单身人数增长了3倍:全人类1/3的家庭只有一个人,巴黎一个人的家庭更是达到了半数。从这一调查情况来看,在25岁以上的人中,全球单身人数为12.5亿。另据中国的一项调查表明,中国的女性消费者有4.8亿之多,其中有21%是单身女 The 2005 WHO survey: Over the past 10 years, the number of singletons in the world has tripled: one-third of all human beings have only one family, and more than half of all families in Paris alone. Judging from this survey, among those over the age of 25, the number of singles in the world is 1.25 billion. According to another survey in China, there are as many as 480 million female consumers in China, of whom 21% are single women