[AnotherUnixGeek]

All kinds of speculation is now seething about what might happen; a war to cull the surplus males, a rise in crime, a huge expansion in the prostitution that is already a major industry in every Chinese city, a rise in homosexuality.

One result is certain: China's population is going to decline. From a pool of 50 men and 50 women, remove 49 of those men and it's still possible for 50 children to be conceived and born in a year. Remove instead 49 women and there can be at most one birth in that year.

China's economy is going to be shrinking in the coming decades unless they make some remarkable advances in efficiency and productivity.

[mvpel]

One result is certain: China's population is going to decline. From a pool of 50 men and 50 women, remove 49 of those men and it's still possible for 50 children to be conceived and born in a year. Remove instead 49 women and there can be at most one birth in that year.

I recall an article a number of years ago that linked this fact to the question of women in combat.