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I was poking around on the US Census Bureau's website for info on an article I'm working on, and ran across some fun numbers.
Debunking the myth of there being more women than men in the world: true, overall there are 96.3 men for every 100 women, but if you break it down by age, there doesn’t start to be an inequality until you hit the 35-39 age bracket, age 36 to be precise. On the contrary, as far as birth rates go, there actually tend to be MORE boys than girls born during any given year, by about 500,000. So for the first three decades, we actually have more selection than they do. By the time we hit 75, however, look out: only 58.2 men for every 100 females. So lads, look on the bright side, you can always mack it up in the nursing home with little to no competition.
In similarly interesting and somewhat related data, 83.7% of men and 80.3% of women in the 20-24 age bracket have never been married; take it up just one level, however, and the numbers have dropped drastically: ages 25-29, only 48.3% of men are still unmarried, and only 34.1% of women. That’s the largest increase in marriages between any two age groups. Of course, you do have to take into account generational differences etc -- only 2.9% of women 60 years of age and older have never been married, which could be argued to reflect on their pre-feminist-revolution status.
Also, between 1996 and 2000, the average age for a groom was 31.29, while for a bride it was 29.16. However, that data's a bit skewed by the average age of widows & widowers getting married (54-ish and 61-ish, respectively). If you go for the younger section of the population, it's 28ish for guys, 26ish for girls.
Innnnnnteresting.
Debunking the myth of there being more women than men in the world: true, overall there are 96.3 men for every 100 women, but if you break it down by age, there doesn’t start to be an inequality until you hit the 35-39 age bracket, age 36 to be precise. On the contrary, as far as birth rates go, there actually tend to be MORE boys than girls born during any given year, by about 500,000. So for the first three decades, we actually have more selection than they do. By the time we hit 75, however, look out: only 58.2 men for every 100 females. So lads, look on the bright side, you can always mack it up in the nursing home with little to no competition.
In similarly interesting and somewhat related data, 83.7% of men and 80.3% of women in the 20-24 age bracket have never been married; take it up just one level, however, and the numbers have dropped drastically: ages 25-29, only 48.3% of men are still unmarried, and only 34.1% of women. That’s the largest increase in marriages between any two age groups. Of course, you do have to take into account generational differences etc -- only 2.9% of women 60 years of age and older have never been married, which could be argued to reflect on their pre-feminist-revolution status.
Also, between 1996 and 2000, the average age for a groom was 31.29, while for a bride it was 29.16. However, that data's a bit skewed by the average age of widows & widowers getting married (54-ish and 61-ish, respectively). If you go for the younger section of the population, it's 28ish for guys, 26ish for girls.
Innnnnnteresting.