Assuming population is made up of 50% men & 50% women...?

Question

Assuming the population is 50% men and 50% women. If there is an increase in population of 30%, would that mean a 30% increase in men, or would it mean 30% increase in women, or would it mean 15% increase in men or 15% in women?

Answer 1

it would be an additional 30% men and an additional 30% women.

population of 100
increase to 130

50 men increase to 65
50 women increase to 65
65 is 30% more than 50

Answer 2

The question you posed did not specify the percentage breakdown of male/female AFTER the increase. Even a hypothetical population, evenly distributed will not guarantee an equally distributed issue of genders. Even if there are genetic tendancies for equal distributions (such as in the general US population) there can be no way of predicting the next generation. For example, not every one will choose to procreate. Some will have more children than others. Some men will impregnate more than one woman, etc.

Purely mathematic answer would call for the artificial condition that all offspring will be evenly distributed: A 30% increase in te male population, a 30% increase in females.

Answer 3

According to the way you have laid it out as 50/50 any increase would follow suit. A 30% increase would be 15% men and 15% women.

Of course this is not the way it really is. There would not be so many left without mates if it were so evenly distributed.

Answer 4

Statistically, the odds are that a 30% increase in population would mean a 15% increase in men and a 15% increase in women.

In practice, women are born slightly more often than men are, so it'd be something like 14.5% to 15.5%. However, in undeveloped countries, boy babies are often seen as more desirable, so girl babies are left to die, and the numbers are heavily skewed towards the men. China is the worst example, where millions of girls are "missing"-- statistically they should have been born, but they were either aborted or abandoned after birth.

Answer 5

You might like to consider that women also suffer a great deal, and that perhaps you may not have any understanding of the trials and tribulations they endure. For the most part, all of us on this earth have some burden to carry during the course of our lives. women as well as men. If men do go to war and etc (and I wonder if you have ever done these 'man things' you list), you might consider that nowadays women also go to war and risk their lives ~ and that, like men, they do so voluntarily with some object greater than their own wellbeing in mind. Not every action we take is governed by 'I am not getting my fair share' ~ rest assured there are many people much better off with much softer lives than you, and a great many more whose every breath is hardship you cannot even imagine. You sound like a self focussed child, but life's long lesson will teach you a thing or two. Cheers :-)

Answer 6

A 30% increase in both.

If population is P, then men=women =0.5P

30% of Men=30% of women= 0.3 * 0.5P=0.15P

So total population after 1 year of increase
= No. of Men + No. of women
= (0.5P + 0.15P) + (0.5P +0.15P)
=1.3P.


Total increase = final - initial = 1.3P -P = 0.3P

%age increase = (change / initial) * 100
=30%

Yipee.

Answer 7

an equal increase. if it were a 30% increase in men or women they would specify it as such.

Answer 8

An additional 15% each way [presuming that you have computed your figures to be divided evenly].