40% of Internet Males, “Have Never Kissed a Girl”

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Mummelmann said:

TaichungSteve said:

Mummelmann said:
makingmusic476: Thanks for a good chuckle in the morning!

OT: Aren't there way fewer women in China and Japan, leaving a massive amount of involuntary bachelors?

The most recent stat I can find for China in the 15-30 age range, which I think would probably be most important for this kind of thing, there are 1.06 males to every 1.0 females. So, no that big of an imbalance at all. (At birth though, it seems to be 1.19 to 1.0, so it's either getting much worse, or a lot of boys are dying at a young age).

Well, considering that China has a population exceeding 1.3 billion, that would leave over 30 million guys perptually single even with a 6% difference and Japan probably aorund 2.5-3 million if the statistics are similar. Pluss, the statistics might be even more skewed when moving up and down the age segments, perhaps as much as 10% in some? But thanks for digging up the numbers!

No worries. From what I've seen, that's pretty much in line with the worldwide numbers, which start out around 1.1 to 1.0 at birth, but then level out. In some cases it gets quite low, due to the longer life expectancy of females (In the US, for example, it's somewhere around .75 to 1.0 after about the age of 50). But yeah, I wouldn't say that there is an inordinate proportion of involuntary bachelors, but a higher number, simply due to the larger population base.