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U.S. and World Population Clock
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#22It would be neat to have some kind of public display that shows two scrolling lists. One is a real time list of births in the US. The other, a real time list of US deaths. The birth and death rates are low enough that most of the time both lists would be changing slow enough that you could easily keep up reading them, but high enough that you could see movement and see that the birth list is growing faster. The death…
That would require a live feed of births and deaths, which I don't think exists. The site is probably based on projections from census data.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen some statistics (not sure about their validity) stating that around 10% of the population are gay/bisexual, so if this were the case then having 7% more males than females wouldn't necessarily be a problem.
Unless 10% of females are also gay/bisexual, then it all cancels out. Also, gender disparities could affect the gay/bisexual communities just as much as the straight community.
That's true. Well at least the imbalance is only in a single age group, not for instance like in China where selective abortions have lead to a nationwide gender gap[1].
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...
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#24I see a discrepancy between the listing of the 10 most populous nations, and the counter... http://i.imgur.com/Jm9uQSF.png 3. United States 318,892,103 But the counter for the USA (as I write this) says: 317,760,552.
The data for the top 10 countries are being pulled from the Census Bureau's International Database. Here's the US data: http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/regi...
There, you can see 2014's mid-year population is identical to the top 10 chart.
So 318,892,103 is the estimated mid-year population for 2014 (July 1), whereas 317,760,552 is the estimated population as of today (March 27).
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#25Notice that there are many more males than females in the USA for in the age bracket when relationships form. The ratio is 1.07 (.73/.68 = 1.07) for 19 year olds. It's incredibly high and I wonder why that is? Think about the implication: No matter what those 107 guys do there will be only enough girlfriends/wives/lovers for 100 hundred of them. The ratio reverses only after age 45. This might explain the extraordina…
Interesting point.
The natural sex ratio at birth is estimated at 1.06, so that ratio of males to females for young Americans is not particularly out of expectation.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio
I couldn't readily find numbers, but I would speculate that there may also be more male than female immigrants at younger ages.
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#26It would be neat to have some kind of public display that shows two scrolling lists. One is a real time list of births in the US. The other, a real time list of US deaths. The birth and death rates are low enough that most of the time both lists would be changing slow enough that you could easily keep up reading them, but high enough that you could see movement and see that the birth list is growing faster. The death…
That would require a live feed of births and deaths, which I don't think exists. The site is probably based on projections from census data.
Minority Report has live feed of future non-natural deaths.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless 10% of females are also gay/bisexual, then it all cancels out. Also, gender disparities could affect the gay/bisexual communities just as much as the straight community.
That's true. Well at least the imbalance is only in a single age group, not for instance like in China where selective abortions have lead to a nationwide gender gap[1]. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...
Dating was actually easier for me in china, and my now Chinese wife says is still is sort of hard for girls to find the right guys especially at the higher end of the socioeconomic spectrum. It's complicated.
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#28The slow demise of the world and it's resources clock.
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#29Notice that there are many more males than females in the USA for in the age bracket when relationships form. The ratio is 1.07 (.73/.68 = 1.07) for 19 year olds. It's incredibly high and I wonder why that is? Think about the implication: No matter what those 107 guys do there will be only enough girlfriends/wives/lovers for 100 hundred of them. The ratio reverses only after age 45. This might explain the extraordina…
Perhaps young men are more likely to immigrate than women? I believe I read somewhere Toxoplasma gondii causes higher birth percentage of males. Also the birth rate is naturally skewed. And then there are selective abortions, and less war to kill off all the young men.
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#30Wow, I can't believe that birth is only 5x as common as immigration in the US. I knew there were a lot of people coming into the country but I didn't think it would be that significant.
We need more if we are to sustain our tax base; immigration only seems high because fertility is relatively low. While it's a lot in absolute terms, the US is only around 180th in terms of population density, well below average. http://ssab.gov/Documents/IMMIG_Issue_Brief_Final_Version_00... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de...
Or we could consider spending less.