China’s ‘women deficit’ taking a demographic toll – Asia Times

More boys than girls are being born in China and more single males in their prime marriageable age are resigned to a celibate life after failing in the intense hunt for a bride.

Some statisticians are referring to the imbalance as a women deficit in the world s most populous nation. 

China s dearth of baby girls has been somewhat concealed by the overall demographic picture of steep declines in newborns over the decades. But preliminary data from the country s ongoing population census have again thrown the stark gender imbalance in almost all age brackets from toddlers to people in their optimal childbearing age into sharper relief. 

The National Statistics Bureau (NSB), while still crunching data collected in the nationwide headcount, noted in its revised 2019 Yearbook that China s sex ratio stood at 104.45 males versus 100 females that year.

While that mismatch does not appear to be huge, in the context of the sheer size of China s 1.3 billion-plus population it indicated a guy glut of 30 million more males than females that year. 

via asiatimes.com

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