Originally Answered: How many women are there in the world? On the one hand there is selective abortion, but on the other especially in richer countries women tend to live a few more years so more boys at one end, more women at the other so roughly maybe 51–2% of people are females, about 3.8 billion.
Explanation:
More precisely, out of 1,000 people, 504 are men (50.4%) and 496 are women (49.6%). For every 100 girls, 106 boys are born, but males have a higher risk of dying than females, both in childhood and at adult ages. So at a certain age, the numbers of men and women even out. In France this occurs at age 25.
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Originally Answered: How many women are there in the world? On the one hand there is selective abortion, but on the other especially in richer countries women tend to live a few more years so more boys at one end, more women at the other so roughly maybe 51–2% of people are females, about 3.8 billion.
Explanation:
More precisely, out of 1,000 people, 504 are men (50.4%) and 496 are women (49.6%). For every 100 girls, 106 boys are born, but males have a higher risk of dying than females, both in childhood and at adult ages. So at a certain age, the numbers of men and women even out. In France this occurs at age 25.