“It is equivalent to every male in the UK dying a bachelor.”

Bam…that’s a strong enough fact to get half the feature editors in the UK pricking up their ears. Fascinating piece from the Guardian:

“The normal human birth ratio is 106 males for every 100 females. In China, that has risen to 118 boys. That means 30 to 50 million men will fail to find wives over the next two decades, according to Prof Li Shuzhuo of the institute for population and development studies at Xi’an Jiaotong University.”

“It is equivalent to every male in the UK dying a bachelor.”