US Census Bureau data reveals gender imbalance across America

Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Whether it refutes or confirms their suspicions likely depends on where they live.

Women outnumber men in the largest urban counties east of the Mississippi River, along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South, while the West skews male, according to data released last week from the 2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, the most comprehensive source of data on American life. Those numbers were also backed up by age and sex figures from the 2020 census released earlier this year

Historically (a while ago) there was always a major surplus of men in all age groups.
Women life expectancy was substantially SHORTER than men due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
Only about 200+ years ago, the advancements in gynecology made these problems uncommon so women’s life expectancy suddenly increased a lot!

I heard it, but now I looked into it and the whole thing is a mess. Basically everybody compares apples and oranges.

Estimating average lifespan 5 hundreds or thousand years ago is not very accurate.

Basically the lifespan in history was lot lover because of massive child mortality. Some resources list that only half of people survived to the age of two.
Once you made it to 15, you made it!

Your life expectancy became similar to today’s lifespan.
Like this Royal Society of medicine compares men and women life expectancy after reaching 15 years of age.
Interestingly, men life expectancy around 1500 in England in this situation was like 67 years while women only about 48 years.
But at 1951 men lived in similar situation only to 69 while women to 73.
There were wars, genocides, starvations and plagues which temporarily messed up this statistics too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/

To illustrate this, if you read history, so many queens died in a childbirth, a lot more than kings dying in a battle!
Men usually married women quite younger than themselves and went through several wives.
Women hade it pretty rough before modern medicine.

Looking through all the publications, I also noted that the modern lifespan difference narrows with advanced age. If you make it to 70, the sex difference does not matter too much any more.

Nope.
As I mentioned, all those numbers are for people who made it to 15.
When child mortality is included, the lifespan drops by half or so, more for men than women as the children mortality was about the same.
For the shorter lifespan of women - most women did not start having children before age of fifteen. They married early, by age 20ty they were expected to be married, but their sexual development was actually slower due to mostly bad nutrition.
So there were then many children by late teen mothers, but actually less children then, compared to now, by early teen mothers.
Anyway, women were expected to have as many children as possible. So 20+ children for one healthy woman was quite common. That meant, women had experienced many more childbirths then now, which implies that they had many chances to die in one.

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