[bradlys]

I’d compare birth rates of men to women. Comparing number of men and women existing isn’t super great. The number of women grows with age because men die younger for various reasons. In the USA, men outnumber women until age 40. Guess what ages men and women tend to look for relationships? Below 40.

Men are birthed more than women just naturally and exist in greater numbers in the world until about age 40. (Many men dying due to suicide and suicide related incidents which don’t get labeled as suicide)

[lhorie]

You can look up the age breakdown[0]. For ages 20-30, there's over 110 males for every 100 females in China. That's 1 in 10 males that cannot physically get a female partner of similar age (and recall, we're talking about one of the most populous countries in the world). Point being: anecdata about group date events is dwarfed by population statistics.

[0] https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/china-sex-r...

[bradlys]

Yeah, that's also a fair way to go. I suggested birth rates because it's easier to go with for people rather than qualifying everything but a bunch of adjectives.

Stats for USA are not as depressing but are still not great for men under 40. https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/us-sex-rati...

It can be worse for individual cities as well - such as San Francisco - where the ratio is supposedly closer to 115-130:100 depending on how you slice the population. (e.g. if you select only for single people between 18-35 rather than including married couples in the stats)