I wonder what countries like India and China will do -- There's a massive gender imbalance in those countries; and in a decade or two; there will 50 million men (in India alone) who are unable to find a mate. Ideas/suggestions/thoughts on this issue?
EDIT: I deduced the ~50 million statistic from the 1.07 sex ratio for the 15-64 age range reported by the CIA[1].
For China, it's amazingly 1.17 for the same age range (!!! WTH -- that translates to 170 million surplus men!). What are these countries going to do?
In the last couple of centuries, lots of Chinese men traveled abroad to find work, many in the western US. More recently men from all over the globe have come to the US for work as well. These men are often supporting families back home, but being unattached makes it even easier to travel abroad to find work in a richer nation than the one you're leaving. I'd expect that trend to continue: the men in these countries that have a too few women will travel to countries where there aren't enough young people to do all of the work that needs doing.
They still won't have wives (unless they like much older women), but they'll have money, and that will give them the resources they need to find companionship. (eg: traveling someplace with a surplus of women, competing with poorer men for the attention of women, paying for prostitution, etc.)
Another theory, and I can't find the source, is that rather then start a war, China has been engaging in massive infrastructure and home building enterprises...perhaps in the hopes that girls will become more desirable as home ownership goes up.
It's not good. A few things that happen when you have a surplus of men: additional wars (when male labor is plentiful it's easier to go to war), decrease in women's rights (women become commodities), and increased demand on social safety nets (elderly men who never marry are more dependent on the state).
EDIT: I deduced the ~50 million statistic from the 1.07 sex ratio for the 15-64 age range reported by the CIA[1].
For China, it's amazingly 1.17 for the same age range (!!! WTH -- that translates to 170 million surplus men!). What are these countries going to do?
[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...