Zephyr
11-19-2011, 03:37 AM
No country for single women - shortage of men in New Zealand
Wellington - Single women have a problem finding a husband or partner in New Zealand - they outnumber men.
There are 35,000 more women in the prime marrying age group of 20 to 45, according to Statistics New Zealand and the situation is so bad that a 32-year-old Kiwi woman has as much chance of finding a partner her age as an 82-year-old.
"The reason being the 82-year-old men are dead and the 32-year-old men aren't there," according to international demographer Bernard Salt, who has studied what he calls the "man drought" in New Zealand and Australia.
"Young Kiwis in their mid to late-20s leave the country, but it's mostly the women who come back," he said, noting that New Zealand suffered the same male shortage as Mexico.
"While Mexican men of that age are in America, Kiwi men are in Australia, London, Dubai," Salt said.
More: http://www.topnews.in/no-country-single-women-shortage-men-new-zealand-284650
Wellington - Single women have a problem finding a husband or partner in New Zealand - they outnumber men.
There are 35,000 more women in the prime marrying age group of 20 to 45, according to Statistics New Zealand and the situation is so bad that a 32-year-old Kiwi woman has as much chance of finding a partner her age as an 82-year-old.
"The reason being the 82-year-old men are dead and the 32-year-old men aren't there," according to international demographer Bernard Salt, who has studied what he calls the "man drought" in New Zealand and Australia.
"Young Kiwis in their mid to late-20s leave the country, but it's mostly the women who come back," he said, noting that New Zealand suffered the same male shortage as Mexico.
"While Mexican men of that age are in America, Kiwi men are in Australia, London, Dubai," Salt said.
More: http://www.topnews.in/no-country-single-women-shortage-men-new-zealand-284650