More baby girls being born in recent years?

Juran

Anyone else notice that more girls are being born lately compared with boys? I have read that chemicals and hormones in our food and environment result in a higher ratio of female:male sperm. Don't know how true that is, but all I know is I work in an office with 10 men, 7 of them have kids between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old  - 13 kids in total, and everyone is a girl. And its the same with friends outside work, they all seem to be having girls.

fergus1001

my family is cursed or blessed i have no nieces only nephews (roughly 14 at this stage)

Harry Palmr

Some stats would help.

Donald Trump

Juran wrote: »

Anyone else notice that more girls are being born lately compared with boys? I have read that chemicals and hormones in our food and environment result in a higher ratio of female:male sperm. Don't know how true that is, but all I know is I work in an office with 10 men, 7 of them have kids between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old - 13 kids in total, and everyone is a girl. And its the same with friends outside work, they all seem to be having girls.

Suits me grand.


In 20 odd years horny little 21-year old feckers will have to lower their standards to ould wizened-willy-wielders like meself (If I'm still alive)

Hasmunch

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Some stats would help.

fergus1001 wrote: »

my family is cursed or blessed i have no nieces only nephews (roughly 14 at this stage)

Juran wrote: »

13 kids in total, and everyone is a girl

So far this thread has 14 boys and 13 girls.
Are these the stats you meant?

Juran

No, I have no stats .... just observation from work colleagues and friends / relatives.

Juran

No, I have no stats .... just observation from work colleagues and friends / relatives.

Harry Palmr

Hasmunch wrote: »

So far this thread has 14 boys and 13 girls.
Are these the stats you meant?

Something more empirical like this*

Live Births 2015

There were 65,536 live births in 2015 comprising of 33,480 males and 32,056 females. The corresponding total for 2014 was 67,295. The birth rate in 2015 was 14.0 per 1,000 population, 0.6 lower than the corresponding birth rate in 2014, which was 14.6 per 1,000 of the population. See tables 2.1a, 2.3 and 2.21.

*amazingly the CSO has not published detailed figures since 2015

edit - found them

There were 62,053 births registered in 2017, 31,855 male births and 30,198 female births, a decrease of 1,844 on 2016. The 2017 total is 12.1% lower than in 2007 when 70,620 births were registered.

Btw if the birth rate has fallen 12% in a decade we could be in trouble!

EPAndlee

I assume your not talking about China

Hasmunch

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Something more empirical like this*

*amazingly the CSO has not published detailed figures since 2015

Excuse me, my "research show a ratio of 1.08 boys to every girl and the CSO figure shows the ratio to be 1.04 boys to every girl, so not that far out.

I should really get this "research" published, even if the CSOs sample size is a tad bigger

homerjay2005

in my circle of friends, over the last 5 years its -

11 boys
1 girl

in my family its 6 boys and 2 girls.