• Question: Are there more females than males on Earth?

    Asked by zgrafitipig to Carol, Ellie, John, Philip, Rebecca on 2 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Rebecca Lacey

      Rebecca Lacey answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      There are very slightly more males than females across the World (the ratio of men to women is 1.07). But this varies depending on where you live. For example in China there are a lot more males than females because baby girls are not very desirable unfortunately.

      In the UK there is a sex ratio of 1.05 which means that there are slightly more males than females

    • Photo: Carol White

      Carol White answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      It really depends on what age of people you look at…

      In total, yes there are more females than males, because females tend to live longer!

      But there are actually more male children than female children!

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