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I'm a bit confused by the "Singles, 20-34" map in your second link. How can there be more single men than women essentially everywhere if there is roughly an e
by big_chungus 7y ago
I'm a bit confused by the "Singles, 20-34" map in your second link. How can there be more single men than women essentially everywhere if there is roughly an even balance of men and women (which there is?) I don't know of any weird dip in the female birthrate 20-34 years ago.
- projectramo 7y agoMore men are born than women but women live longer on average so the ratio stays around even.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoWhile the gender ratio for a particular age gets increasingly skewed. Past a certain age, it's mostly old women. Since, on average, men tend to marry women a few years younger than them, older women face a rather tough dating market and it gets worse with every passing year that they fail to die.
- mellosouls 7y agoDealing with heterosexual couplings only, the "50/50 balance = no excess singles" theory assumes men and women pair up equally, but if, say, a percentage of women go for a significantly smaller percentage of men - and share them - this would lead to an excess of single men. As this seems to be a touchy subject with some, I'm not trying to make a point, just relating how this could statistically work - and of course, it would work the other way round and leave an excess of women. This reversal may be indicated at the 50+ age ranges in some of the links where single women are in the excess in that demographic.
- imtringued 7y agoPeople don't marry within the same age bracket. Younger women marry older men. So if you are male and in your 20s you are competing against single men in their 30s and 40s who are all going for girls in their 20s.