The situation in 2030 may well be different. Many young people are not marrying or not having children: 16.8% of Singaporeans (18.5% of males, 15.1% of females) aged 35-44 in 2000 were unmarried, as opposed to a singles rate of 10% in 1990. In some social groupings the percentage is even higher: 28.2% of graduate women (but 13.6% of university men), 24.8% of primary-only men (but 10% of non-secondary women) are still on their own at the end of their child bearing years. Such persons will clearly not be able to live with or be supported by their children when they are unable to cope. The Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Ageing Population predicted that it would not be long before one senior citizen in four would be living alone.