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No, the surplus skews it. If there's 120 males and 100 females for an age bracket like 30 - 40, and 80 of them are couples (assuming hetero), that leaves 40 mal
by reducesuffering 3y ago
No, the surplus skews it. If there's 120 males and 100 females for an age bracket like 30 - 40, and 80 of them are couples (assuming hetero), that leaves 40 males for 20 females as the rest, 2:1 single ratio. Men are born like 1.05 : 1 so early years are male-surplus and elderly are female-surplus because men die quicker. Then you also have the conundrum where males 20 - 50 are competing for women 20 - 35, so market dynamics aren't always 1 to 1 age-wise.