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Are there more Girls or Guys on earth?

Asked by burner911 (65points) March 3rd, 2008
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jrpowell's avatar

After some number crunching at the CIA factbook..

Male: 3,323,608,139
Female: 3,278,616,036

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html#People

PrancingUrchin's avatar

females slightly edge out men in the world and in the USA

djbuu's avatar

females. Giggity giggity

rubybooby's avatar

females. I think its because of girls being easier grow inside a woman and the viability of egg and sperm quality. Everyone actually starts out as girls in utero.

Rockey04's avatar

girls because men get killed at war

steveakimbo's avatar

Women live longer, and
Fewer women die recklessly

bea2345's avatar

Women: 1950: 1,268,986; 2007: 3,310,484
Men: 1950: 1,266,107; 2007: 3,360,743

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bea2345's avatar

actual figures, e.g. given by @johnpowell, show that men now outnumber women (quite unlike 1950, when women outnumbered men (BTW, I should have said in the above post, these figures are 000’s). That could not be good, could it?

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