Still More Boys Than Girls Being Born
Where are the boys? Right here in the U.S.A. where, for the 63rd year in a row, more boys than girls were born. Exactly 94,232 more boys than girls were born in the U.S. during 2004, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that examines total sex ratios at birth for over six decades. CDC calculates the total sex ratio as the number of male births divided by female births times 1,000. Other findings of the report include: • The more children a woman has the more likely she is going to give birth to an equal number of boys and girls. • Since 1940, an average of 91,685 more male babies have been born each year than females, a total of 5,776,130 over that 63-year period. • The highest sex birth ratio occurred in 1946 (1,059 male births per 1,000 females) while the lowest occurred in 1991 and again in 2001 (1,046 male births per 1,000 females).
