Early Bird Gets the Worm, Especially for Females
What do data say about the dating market? It highly favors men.
Seriously? You can start by calculating your odds here.
The uneven gender ratio
Among the total of 115.5 million U.S. unmarried adult population age 18 and older, 53.5%, i.e., 61.8 million are women and 46.5%, i.e., 53.7 million are men. Women outnumber men by 8 million. For each single man, there are 1.15 women. 13% of women won’t have a man just by the numbers. Among the total number of 20.6 million single adults age 65 and older, 69.5%, i.e., 14.3 million are women, 30.5%, i.e., 6.3 million are men. The number of women is 2.3 times of the number of men, i.e., more than double. For each single man, there are 2.3 single women. 56% of women won’t have a man just by the numbers.
For women who want to get married, they should know that every year they are in the dating market, the numbers get worse for them, according to an award winning journalist Jon Birger, the author of the book Date-Onomics. After studying statistics, Birger came up with the “man deficit” phenomenon. He further likened dating to musical chairs. If it starts with 10 people, everyone’s chance of losing is 10%. For the last two standing, the chance of losing increases to 50%.
