How many boys are born for every 100 girls?

Answer 1

If you talk in the US, it is about 102, In middle east, the ratio is over 130, in China it is 126, and in Quebec (Canada) it is 98...
Historically speaking when countries or society did reach a higher ratio of man than woman, wars was erupting to rebalance the population. Now it is different... But how much different...

Answer 2

In practice it's about the same amount. Over extremely large numbers of births (like all the births in a country) and over long periods of time (such as a year) you'll start to see a small percentage more girls than boys, something around 1% to 2% I think. However, if you just looked at a single hospital for a year you'd probably see less than 1% difference in the number of girls to boys born so you could say that it was pretty much even.

So, say during a year, for every 100 girls born you'll have 98 or 99 boys born. The worlds population is not quite 50/50 but slightly in favor of girls because of this.

Answer 3

In the U.S. and Worldwide there are more boy babies born than girl babies

From the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta

For the 63d year in a row, the number of boys born in the United States outnumbers births of girls -– in 2002, 94,232 more boys than girls were born. This is the central finding of a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report dated June 14, 2005

From 1940 to 2003, an average of 91,685 more male babies have been born each year than females, a total of 5,776,130 over that 63-year period.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/05facts/moreboys.htm

At the highest sex birth ratio in the United States, which occurred in 1946, there were about 105.9 boys born per 100 girls; and at the lowest sex birth ratio (in 2001), there were about 104.6 boys born per 100 girls. There were 104.8 boys born in 2000 for every 100 girls.

Globally, there are about 105-107 boys born for every 100 girls. Source: http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/22/why_are_more_boys_than_girls_being_born.htm

Answer 4

There are generally more girls as the two previous answers suggested. I do wonder since China is such a large country and girls are often aborted, that the percentages would at least be near equal.

Answer 5

the ratio is 51 boys to 49 girls...so...104 boys per 100 girls, however, the rates are beginning to switch according to recent surveys

Answer 6

roughly 105