On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 05:29:01 -0800, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

On Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 3:50:05 AM UTC-8,
wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Karl Striedieck
wrote:
SHE SCOOOORRRRREES! Sarah Arnold clobbered the field on the first day
at the Women's Worlds in Australia.

Current female percentage of the world's population is 49.6%:

https://countrymeters.info/en/World

That is amazing, considering how stupid men are. One would think there
would be a higher loss rate of men.

There are a number of cultural groups which put immense value on having a
son and regard daughters as expenses due to dowries etc. In these
cultures using fetus sex determination to prefer sons to daughters seems
to be on the increase. If taken to an extreme, it could effect their
son's changes of marrying. This does already seem to show up in the
figures for different countries where prebirth sex selection is a well-
known practise among those who can afford it, e.g. India. From the looks
of the numbers, this could be a thing in China too.

Country male:female at birth male_female overall
======= ==================== ===================
India 55.5%:44.5% 54.0%:46.0%
China 56.5%:43.5% 53.0%:47.0%
UK,USA 52.5%:47.5% 49.5%:50.5%

Interesting that everywhere the numbers move in favour of women after
birth, and in progressively older age bands until, for the over 65 band
there are more women in most countries.

This data is from the CIA World Fact book:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...ook/index.html


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