Hey! I’m wonderin that how does the population ratio is still more or less %50-50 (%49.5 female vs %50.5 male) even that the knowledge we know;
1- Men is being killed, and killed in past in wars.
2- Men is working on heavy-duty jobs that killed men.
3- We also know that the expected life span of a female is higher than men.
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So, there should be some imbalances, right?
Men dies in wars, in dangeroues jobs and has less life time.
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So, how does the ratio keep its balance?
In: Biology
Deaths due to war are a small portion of all deaths in most countries and have been for a long time. There have been exceptions – Russia, for example, has a significantly higher female population from the WW2 era than male population because the male population saw a brutal death rate in WW2.
Men work in more dangerous jobs in general, but again these are a small portion of overall deaths. Take the US – there’s around 5000 workplace related deaths each year, which works out to about 14/day. Cancer kills about 1600 per day. Over a hundred times as many, and that’s just one of many causes of death unrelated to the workplace. All in workplace deaths are only about 1/500 deaths in the US.
Another factor in the balance – more males are born than females. Hypothesis is that the male sperm are faster. In the US there are about 5% more males born each year than females.
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