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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re:  More Men Than Women?
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 18:31:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 18:31:30 1985
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>If I recall, the overall female-male ratio in this country  is  53-47.
>Given  that  some of this imbalance would be due to mortality rates in
>higher age groups, the ratio at age 25 would be no worse  than  52-48,
>and  perhaps  more even.  If 50% of the men at that age are married or
>in an equivalent state of committment, that makes the available  ratio
>28-24,  or  54-46,  which  wouldn't  seem  to  be  as  overwhelming as
>described above.  If the 50% becomes 75%, the ratio becomes 16-12,  or
>57-43,  perhaps  a  borderline condition.  Of course, this varies with
>geographical area.  Still, such a change wouldn't be noticible at  25,
>unless a lot of people are committing themselves at 24.


Actually according to the statistics in  front  of  me  men  outnumber
women  until  we  get  to the 25-44 year old age group and the overall
ratio is closer to 51.3-48.7.  Of course, at any time a large part  of
the  U.S.  male population is in the Armed Forces overseas.  In the 65
or older group the ratio is almost 60-40.

As you pointed out the ratios vary greatly  from  city  to  city.  For
instance  in San Diego in the 25-34 age group the female to male ratio
is about 39-61.