Why 30 million Chinese men may never get married

The reason is simple – there are not enough women for them to marry.

Official statistics show that there are 105.02 men for every 100 women in China’s population of 1.37 billion people. And that’s for 2015.

Also the sex ratio at birth for the year was at 113.51 boys for every 100 girls as opposed to the natural sex ratios at birth  which ranges from 103 to 107 boys for every 100 girls.

But the current abnormal sex ratio is an improvement from previous years. It used to be worse.

Gender imbalance grew in China from the 1980s to 2004, when the sex ratio at birth peaked at an astounding 121.18, CCTV News reports.

China still has the worst-ever gender gap in the world though says the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

That situation has been blamed on the country’s recently abandoned One-Child policy coupled with the traditional preference for male heirs..