China’s official one-child policy, in effect from 1979 to 2015, was a huge factor in creating this imbalance, as millions of couples were determined that their child should be a son. Out of China’s population of 1.4 billion, there are nearly 34 million more males than females - the equivalent of almost the entire population of California, or Poland, who will never find wives and only rarely have sex. “In the future, there will be millions of men who can’t marry, and that could pose a very big risk to society,” warns Li Shuzhuo, a leading demographer at Xi’an Jiaotong University. Barely recognized, the ramifications of too many men are only starting to come into sight. Those consequences are not confined to China and India, but reach deep into their Asian neighbors and distort the economies of Europe and the Americas, as well. The consequences of having too many men, now coming of age, are far-reaching: Beyond an epidemic of loneliness, the imbalance distorts labor markets, drives up savings rates in China and drives down consumption, artificially inflates certain property values, and parallels increases in violent crime, trafficking or prostitution in a growing number of locations. Men outnumber women by 70 million in China and India. A combination of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology in the world’s two largest countries has created a gender imbalance on a continental scale. Nothing like this has happened in human history. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript.
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