A population question
January 18, 2008
Here are two questions I’m seeking answers to: given a demographic of 50 percent male, 50 percent female for any particular state in the United States, what are the different forces, including births and deaths, that maintain that demographic, and how do they maintain that demographic?
Copyright © Darrin Koltow
January 18, 2008 at 3:13 pm
It doesn’t. The ratio tends to be 52% female and 48% male. Births of males are slightly more common, but men die younger then women enough to counter act that difference and increase the ratio to about 52/48 female.